The Dark IslandFrom 1906 to 1925, Quail Island was the site of New Zealand's leprosy colony. The colony began by accident, as it were, after the discovery of a leprosy sufferer in Christchurch. As further patients arrived from across the country, it grew into a controversial and troubled institutionan embarrassment to the Health Department, an object of pity to a few, and a source of fear to many. It was a place that some people wanted to forget, but its stories are