Sentences with phrase «penal colony of»
«It is the date of the founding of the penal colony of NSW, and it marks the commencement of a long history of dispossession and trauma for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.»
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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.
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.
Not exact matches
Speaking Sunday at a press conference detailing the report, the head of the 27 - member commission, former New York Chief Justice Jonathan Lippman, excoriated Rikers Island as a «penal colony» physically and psychologically remote from the city at large that does far more harm than good to anyone who ends up there.
The Island is a powerful symbol of a discredited approach to criminal justice — a penal colony that subjects all within its walls to inhumane conditions.»
French Guiana, best known for the notorious Devil's Island penal colony, is the tarantula capital of the world.
The other source of negative sentiment was Rikers Island, the world's largest penal colony.
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.
Sent to the Devil's Island penal colony, Dr. Karloff runs afoul of sadistic commandant James Stephenson, who seems obsessed by the guillotine (an execution sequence is one of the film's longest scenes).
Here's the set - up: Eyepatched malcontent Snake Plissken (Kurt Russell) has just docked inside the penal colony / war zone of Manhattan Island circa, obviously, the future, but you'll laugh when the year is identified as 1997.
«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.
In 1788, England sent its first shipload of prisoners to Australia, establishing the continent as a penal colony.
His journey takes him deep into the jungle, from the hideouts of runaway slaves to penal colonies, outlandish forts, remote Amerindian villages, a «Little Paris» and a space port.
New South Wales was originally settled as a penal colony on the shores of Port Jackson where the bustling capital city of Sydney now stands.
Having served over the centuries as a penal settlement, leper colony and lunatic asylum, its notoriety has, more recently, centred around the fact that President Nelson Mandela and many of his colleagues were imprisoned here during the final years of the apartheid regime.
Despite naming their discovery «New Holland» the Dutch did not settle here; that honour went to the British who established a penal colony, to which convicts were deported by ship, on 26 January 1788, where the city of Sydney now stands.
Holmes had the license to transport the convicts to Alta California, part of a plan by the Mexican government for a penal colony.
Some things must have changed since the days of the penal colony!
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.
So I decided on my elf ranger by the name of Silvana, a prisoner (like all the other selectable characters) on a ship headed to a nearby penal colony.
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.
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.