Sentences with phrase «penal colony on»
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.
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«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.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.