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
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.
Alexander Pearce
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Alexander Pearce was an Irish convict who was transported to the penal colony in Van Diemen's Land, Australia for seven years for theft. He escaped from prison several times, allegedly becoming a cann
Macquarie Harbour Penal Station
…1828 escape and was subsequently employed to make official surveys of the wilderness he had passed through. Sarah Island's most infamous escapee was Alexander Pearce who managed to get away twice. On both occasions, he cannibalized his fellow escapees. As the station was closing down, ten convicts remained to complete…
Drawings, by Thomas Bock, of the face of Alexander Pearce after his execution.
Copy of the death sentence pronounced on Alexander Pearce
Pearce's skull