PORT ARTHUR HISTORIC SITE
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One of the darkest prisons in Australia's history, the site offers tours of its buildings.
It's one of Australia's 11 penal colonies, and not the least. Before becoming one of the darkest prisons in Australian history, Port Arthur was just a small logging station. It was the famous Huon pine, with its reputedly rot-proof wood, and the presence of the virtually unlimited free labor offered by Her Majesty's convicts, that enabled shipbuilding to be developed on a large scale on this part of the island from 1833 onwards.
The cessation of the deportation ofconvicts to Tasmania in 1853 led to a gradual reduction in the number of prisoners sent to Port Arthur.
However, the story of Port Arthur did not end with the "departure" of the last convict (1877). Almost immediately after the end of the penal colony, the site was renamed Carnarvon and, in the 1880s, the land was parcelled out and auctioned off. A village was born out of hell.
A tour of the site's many buildings and Government Gardens will take a minimum of 2 hours. You can either take the guided tour, or visit the site on your own with the documentation available. Several cafés for your lunch break. For lovers of intrigue and mystery, take a trip back in time when the site's doors close at night for a ghost tour to meet the site's ghosts. A one-and-a-half-hour tour with captivating lantern-lit stories that will leave you shivering for a long time to come!
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Pénitancier, où a eu lieu de telles atrocités.
This visit takes us with body and you feel the charge in emotion place!
It is even stronger since the massacre of 36 people by a killer gives in 1996 on this tourist site...
During the mini cruise goshawks of " the island cimetière" , the mouth of the peninsula is seen; that means that the next ground on the other side of this ocean is the south pole! Surrealist for us, european!