Port Arthur, Tasmania
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Port Arthur is a town and former convict settlement on the Tasman Peninsula, in Tasmania, Australia. It is located approximately 97 kilometres southeast of the state capital, Hobart.
View of Port Arthur, Tasmania, one of the 11 penal sites constituting the Australian Convict Sites
Penitentiary and Mount Arthur, Tasmania, c. 1880, by Anson Brothers
Interior of Model Chapel, Port Arthur, Tasmania, c. 1880, by Anson Brothers
The tidal portion of Radcliffe Creek
Tasmania
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Tasmania is an island state of Australia. It is located 240 kilometres to the south of the Australian mainland, and is separated from it by the Bass Strait. The state encompasses the main island of Ta
Port Arthur, Tasmania
…Port Arthur is a town and former convict settlement on the Tasman Peninsula, in Tasmania, Australia. It is located approximately 97 kilometres (60 mi) southeast of the state capital, Hobart. The site forms part of the Australian Convict…
Tasmania from space
Tessellated pavement, a rare rock formation on the Tasman Peninsula
1807 engraving by French explorer Charles Alexandre Lesueur shows seafaring Aboriginal people and a large canoe on the eastern shore of Schouten Island.
Tasmania is named after Dutch explorer Abel Tasman, the first European to sight the island, in 1642.