Peat Island

For just over 100 years an institution for the mentally ill has stood on little Peat Island, in the lower Hawkesbury.<br /><br />It was decommissioned in 2010; quite empty now, it remains a locked facility just as it had always been. And eerie.<br /><br />The last residents were dispersed into the wider community. In this, they echoed the fate of the Darkinjung people, original custodians of this country - their community was scattered just as intentionally, and effective