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Port Arthur

Penal settlement on the Tasman Peninsula, begun as a timber camp and turned into the destination for Britain's most persistent reoffenders. Its separate prison was built to punish by isolation and silence instead of the lash.

Dated events and their evidence

• 1830 CE mainstream
  founded in September as a timber-getting station source
• 1833 CE mainstream
  becomes the destination for repeat transported convicts source
• 1877 CE mainstream
  penal settlement closed source

Where

43.1500° S, 147.8500° E

Sources

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_Arthur,_Tasmania

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