Sentences with phrase «penal colony in»

Sydney is white Australia's birthplace, settled as a penal colony in 1788.

Fort Denison, an old penal colony in the middle of Sydney Harbour, has one of the oldest tide gauges around, having been located there for 128 years.

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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.

For about 50,000 years After the European discovery of the continent by Dutch explorers in 1606, Australia's eastern half was claimed by Great Britain in 1770 and initially settled through penal transportation to the colony of New South Wales from 26 January 1788.

Founded in 1803 as a penal colony, it is one of Australians oldest cities, with a greater area population of approximately 205,566.

Set in Tasmania — then a penal colony — in 1825, The Nightingale combines historical drama and revenge thriller as an Aboriginal tracker and an Irish convict head into the Australian wilderness to get revenge on the soldiers who killed the latter's husband and baby.

«Papillon» stars Hunnam in the title role of Henri «Papillon» Charrière, who is sent to a penal colony on Devil's Island after being framed for murder.

During TIFF last fall, our own Steven Weintraub chatted with Hunnam about the autobiographical tale of the late Henri Charrière «s experiences in the French prison system and its penal colony.

Mud is played by Matthew McConaughey in the latest in a series of surprising, intense and often very funny performances following his escape from the commercial romantic - comedy penal colony.

Charlie Hunnam (The Lost City of Z) and Rami Malek (Mr. Robot) take on the roles previously played by Steve McQueen and Dustin Hoffman, in this new screen adaptation of Henri Charrière's memoir of his imprisonment and repeated escapes from the notorious penal colony of Devil's Island.

In 1788, England sent its first shipload of prisoners to Australia, establishing the continent as a penal colony.

In fact the isle was once used as a penal colony for criminals and misfits banished from Bali's powerful kingdom Klungkung.

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.

Possibly one of the best prisons in the country, the Iwahig Prison is a model penal colony where instead of placing prisoners behind bars, they get get to roam around in a vast area with fields, shelters, ponds and natural surroundings.

The Privy Council in Edwards accepted the Lambe proposition as being generally valid, but added that the BNA Act should not be construed strictly, as penal or tax statutes are, and should instead be given a liberal interpretation since it was «passed to ensure the peace, order and good government of a British Colony.»

Today, he is languishing in a KGB penal colony outside of the eastern Belarusian city of Mogilev.

The winner of the Hugo Award in 1967, Heinlein's celebrated novel chronicles a Lunar city's revolution after years of serving as a penal colony for Earth.