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Tasmania’s Gulag Peninsula

Previously submitted by the important was the narrowing
late Don Kiselewski, MCC, of the landmass at Eaglehawk
D.S., Palm Beach Gardens Neck. At this point, the
Travel Leaders lower end of the peninsula
Imagine if you will, was squeezed to 100 yards
being very cold, hungry, and between the Norfolk Bay
without a job or a place to and Tasman Sea. Keeping
live. Imagine that not only the prisoners contained
you but also thousands of became easy … all it took
people – almost the entire was a line of vicious dogs
country – are in the same chained at intervals along
boat. Such was the case in the end of Eaglehawk Neck.
England in the early 19th century. It appeared as though The center of the lower The Penitentiary at Port Arthur. The remains of the hospital stand on the hill.
crime was the only way out. Not so much committing the portion of the peninsula is
crime, and the benefit of the loot, but instead, the prospect of pierced by Carnarvon Bay,
being caught and sent to prison. A prison far from the shores shown on maps as Port
of the British Isles … and, a prison where one might get the Arthur. Located in a cove on
chance to continue life in a new country. the western side of the bay
Such was the case with many of the prisoners that were is Port Arthur, the settlement
sent far from the British named by Captain John Welsh
Isles to serve out their and his surveyor in 1828. The
prison sentences. prison took its name from
Many committed what the port located at the cove,
we might think of as named Russel Cove during
petty crimes, such the convict period, however
as stealing a silver later it was changed to Mason
spoon or candlestick Cove. During the convict
or a lace handkerchief.
However, during this Tasmania’s Gulag Peninsula The Convict Church built in 1836 to 1867. The church was never consecrated because it was
great depression in on page 15 used by different denominations.
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