Sentences with phrase «historic penal colony»
On April 28, 1996, a 28 - year - old Australian man named Martin Bryant ate lunch at Broad Arrow Cafe in Port Arthur, Tasmania, a historic penal colony that is a popular tourist resort.
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Soak up history at the former penal colony of Port Arthur, Hobart s historic waterfront and numerous gracious Georgian farmhouses throughout the countryside, walk over Cataract Gorge, a dramatic wilderness right in the centre of Launceston, take the Overland Track through the scenic beauty of Cradle Mountain - Lake St Clair National Park, admire the perfect curve of Wineglass Bay in Freycinet National Park, watch the majestic Gordon River meet the wild Franklin River in the spectacular wilderness of the Franklin - Gordon Wild Rivers National Park, take a scenic rack - and - pinion railway to historic Queenstown, once the world s richest gold and copper mine and walk to Montezuma Falls, Tasmania s tallest waterfall, from the peaceful town of Rosebery.