Sentences with phrase «penal settlement»

Port Arthur Port Arthur Historic Site was established in the 1830s as a penal settlement.

The island has been listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Listed Site and was once a convict penal settlement.

After which he fell fowl of the law and was transported to the new penal settlement at Sullivan's Bay in 1803 (near Sorrento on the Mornington Peninsula).

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.

Fly south to the beautiful island of Tasmania, which was once the site of Australia's most notorious penal settlement.

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Pearce, a convict who had made his way through a number of penal institutions, gained notoriety as a bushranger who escaped from the Macquarie Harbour Penal Settlement and made his way across the rugged terrain of Western Tansania.