Sentences with phrase «penal colony where»

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.

As for Gili T, it was initially used by the authorities as a penal colony where prisoners cultivated the land.

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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.

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.