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Port Arthur Panorama

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Port Arthur penal station was founded in 1830 as a timber getting camp,producing sawn logs for government projects. After 1833 it became a punishment station for repeat offenders from all the Australian colonies. By 1840 over 2000 convicts,soldiers and civil staff lived there.

 

www.portarthur.org.au/

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Uploaded on October 5, 2009
Taken on October 5, 2009