Grim reminder of Tasmania’s past
Pictures by LES BLOXHAM, travel editor of “The Press”
Australia’s infamous convict settlement at Port Arthur, 100 km south-east of Hobart, is now one of Tasmania’s biggest tourist drawcards. Millions of dollars have been poured into the restoration of the old buildings to recapture the atmosphere of the penal colony as it was between 1830 and 1877 when more than 12,500 convicts were sentenced to serve time there. Most prisoners had committed crimes after their transportation to Australia by British Courts earlier in the century. The settlement was self-sufficient and convicts were used to fell timber for Government projects. Restoration work, which cost close to $lO million, took seven years. More than half of all visitors to Tasmania now visit Port Arthur, a 90minute trip by road from Hobart. Air New Zealand flies a direct service to Hobart from Christchurch every Saturday.
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Press, 17 March 1987, Page 39
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