Cockle Creek (Tasmania)
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Cockle Creek is the farthest point south one can drive in Australia. It is located on Recherche Bay on the edge of the Southwest National Park, part of the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area.
Cockle Creek
Sea inlet in Cockle Creek
Sunrise at Cockle Creek
The Macquarie Harbour Penal Station, a former British colonial penal settlement, established on Sarah Island, Macquarie Harbour, in the former Penal colony of Van Diemen's Land, now Tasmania, operated
Cockle Creek (Tasmania)
…sites associated with the expedition have also been located. The region provided an important port of call for ships transporting convicts to the Sarah Island Penal Colony in Macquarie Harbour on the West coast of Tasmania from 1822 to 1834, when sealers, whalers and loggers visited the area and settled to…
Sarah Island in Macquarie Harbour
North east view of Macquarie Harbour penal settlement, Sarah Island, Tasmania, 1833
Part of Sarah Island, including ruins of the "new penitentiary"
Ruins of the large domed oven in the bakehouse on Sarah Island.