The standoff on Manus Island came to a violent end on Friday as Papua New Guinea police re-entered the camp and appeared to forcibly remove refugees and asylum seekers.
Immigration Minister Peter Dutton, a PNG police spokesman, and several refugees separately confirmed all the men left the decommissioned site on Friday.
The men, who had refused to leave the decommissioned detention centre for more than three weeks, capitulated and boarded buses for alternative accommodation in the nearby town of Lorengau.
"We don't have any option to stay here. All of us, we all are going," Pakistani refugee Samad Abdul told Fairfax Media from inside the camp, where he was preparing to leave once buses returned.
"The police are so aggressive. They are telling us 'you should go back to your country'. They are swearing at us. They are using unacceptable words. Everyone is scared, everyone is just terrified."
Mr Abdul said about half the men left the camp on buses Friday morning and the remainder would also depart once the buses returned. The ABC reported six buses arrived in Lorengau at 9am.
Video sent to Fairfax Media by one man inside the camp showed chaotic scenes on Friday morning as police officers appeared to use long batons to cow the men into submission.
One man tweeting from inside the camp on Friday morning, Ezatullah Kakar, indicated many of the men were complying with police demands to leave.
"We are all crying leaving the camp to another camp," he wrote. "PNG Police are pushing my friends, and they are beating us by sticks please help us. Remember you will never settle us by force in PNG."
Another video distributed by activist group GetUp! on Friday was taken by a man hiding inside one of the decommissioned compounds saying: "Please help us."
It is the second day of action against the resisting refugees after an operation on Thursday resulted in 50 men departing the decommissioned site on buses, leaving about 325 men who remained overnight.
PNG police have denied using force, but photos taken by refugees inside the camp show men being led away by immigration officers, and yesterday at least one man - Iranian refugee and journalist Behrouz Boochani - was removed from the site in handcuffs.
The Australian-run centre was closed on October 31 following a PNG Supreme Court decision last year, which ruled it unconstitutional. Alternative accommodation has been provided, and paid for, by the Australian government in the nearby town of Lorengau.
However, the resisting refugees and asylum seekers have said they fear for their safety in the Manusian community.
Reports from two of the alternative accommodation facilities, Hillside Haus and West Lorengau Haus, have also indicated those facilities are still under construction.
World Vision chief advocate Tim Costello, who is on Manus Island, said Australia had started a "geopolitics game of chicken" that meant PNG was scared to take New Zealand up on its offer to resettle 150 refugees for fear of accepting responsibility for the entire situation.
Other countries were reluctant to take refugees for fear of jeopardising Australia's agreement with the United States to see up to 1250 refugees resettled from Manus Island and Nauru, Mr Costello said.
"I am scared that this tinderbox actually could explode but I'm not critical of the PNG authorities at all," he told ABC radio, expressing sympathy for the local police.
Mr Costello said the Turnbull government should send a special envoy up to Manus.
"Get a special envoy in here and get a solution because it's doing damage to our reputation in New Guinea, our reputation internationally, and there are solutions," he said.
