Ruins at Coal Mines - Tasman Peninsula, Tasmania 2016
Coal Mines Historic site was Tasmania's first operational mine
The Coal Mines Historic Site is an outstanding example of the 19th-century European global strategy of using the forced labour of convicts. Illustrating the importance of labour and production, classification, punishment and surveillance in the penal system and the role of the convict in the establishment of colonial economies, the Coal Mines Historic Site is listed as one of the 11 sites that together form the Australian Convict Sites World Heritage Property, inscribed on the World Heritage list in 2010.
(from website - coalmines.org.au/
Ruins at Coal Mines - Tasman Peninsula, Tasmania 2016
Coal Mines Historic site was Tasmania's first operational mine
The Coal Mines Historic Site is an outstanding example of the 19th-century European global strategy of using the forced labour of convicts. Illustrating the importance of labour and production, classification, punishment and surveillance in the penal system and the role of the convict in the establishment of colonial economies, the Coal Mines Historic Site is listed as one of the 11 sites that together form the Australian Convict Sites World Heritage Property, inscribed on the World Heritage list in 2010.
(from website - coalmines.org.au/