Port Arthur and Peninsula
March 9th 2012 We left the camp and A&M at Port Arthur and took the peninsula loop road to White Beach near Nubeena to take a look then headed for the Coal Mines at Norfolk Bay . This was a location that prisoners were sent from Port Arthur if they were very bad or recidivist offenders. They were put to hard labour down deep shafts digging coal which was brought to the surface manually. The site consisted of man
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