Peniteniary

This was a four storey building which was described as "a machine to grind rogues honest" by the prison reformer Jeremy Bentham

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Fish Lips

March 5th 2009
DAY 118 The weather was heinous again, and we were getting slightly cheesed off with it, we were joking to each other that back in the 1800’s the convicts were sent to Australia must have thought brilliant, sunshine, but when they found they were off to Tasmania it was a different story. I accept they said that Tasmania was just like England, but I didn’t expect it to be like a bad day in ... read more

Oceania » Australia » Tasmania » Hobart

Aboriginal settlers arrived on the continent from Southeast Asia about 40,000 years before the first Europeans began exploration in the 17th century. No formal territorial claims were made until 1770, when Capt. James COOK took possession in the name... ... read more

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