Torrens Island the site at different times; the surviving Torrens Island Quarantine Station is listed on the South Australian Heritage Register. Tours of the heritage-listed Quarantine Station are conducted by the South Australian Maritime Museum. The Torrens Island Internment Camp was a World War I detention camp which held up to 400 men of German or Austro-Hungarian background between 9 October 1914 and 16 August 1915. There are two power stations on Torrens Island: A proposed third station known as the Barker Inlet Power Station was announced in 2017 with construction commenced in the third quarter of the year with the aim
Robert Torrens (judge) In 1855-6 Torrens was one of several Irish judges who was threatened with removal from office by the House of Commons as being too old or inform to fulfill their duties properly. The Irish Bar strongly opposed his removal from office, pleading that although he was eighty years of age, Torrens was an exceptionally conscientious and hard-working judge. Torrens protested strongly at the suggestion that he was unfit for office, but in the event he died suddenly at his country house, Derrynoid Lodge, just after the spring assizes in 1856. Like many of the Torrens clan he married a cousin,