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Ross Island Penal Colony has been listed as one of the History good articles under the good article criteria. If you can improve it further, please do so. If it no longer meets these criteria, you can reassess it.
Review: August 21, 2015. (Reviewed version).

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A fact from Ross Island Penal Colony appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 6 August 2015 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that the Ross Island Penal Colony was established by the British Raj in the Andamans to imprison political prisoners of the First War of Independence of India in 1857?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2015/August. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Ross Island Penal Colony.

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