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TURNING POINTS · 1830

Port Arthur, Tasmania, Australia

Port Arthur is one of eleven Australian Convict Sites on the World Heritage List.

Port Arthur, Tasmania, Australia
Photo: Wikimedia Commons

The story, as a puzzle

The prison at the end of the world.
From 1830 to 1877 this was a penal settlement for convicts transported from Britain who reoffended, on a peninsula whose narrow neck was guarded by a line of chained dogs. Pin it.

Where it is

Port Arthur, Tasmania, Australia · -43.1441, 147.8549

Source: UNESCO World Heritage Centre ↗

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