Some Pics of Port Arthur in Tasmania.
It's a beautiful place in the world, however it's past is coloured with much pain and suffering.
The Island of the Dead, Port Arthur cemetery.
Sitting on the Tasman Peninsula, it was a 19th-century penal
settlement and is now an open-air museum. Ruins include the huge
penitentiary and the remaining shell of the Convict Church, which was
built by inmates.
over 30 buildings and ruins to explore.
It is worth contemplating that the inmates of this huge prison had spent three months on cramped boats traveling to at that time must have seemed like the end of the world.
The centrepiece building at Port Arthur is The Penitentiary.
This was originally built as a flour mill and granary in 1843, however in 1857 it was converted
into a penitentiary. It housed 480 convicts.
The building is now just a shell. It was destroyed by fire in 1897.
The Asylum was built in 1868.
Port Arthur Court House
These are pics of Port Arthur village.
Built 1836/7
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