A place designed for the imprisonment and punishment of convicts.
dysentery was rife in the nearby convict settlement
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- The traditional explanation that New South Wales was colonized to provide a convict settlement is more plausible.
- He was appointed Steward and Clerk at the convict settlement at $120 per year plus housing and rations.
- Fear of starvation led to a division of the First Fleeters into two convict settlements.
- The first Australian towns were convict settlements, with large numbers of soldiers and administrators.
- Founded as a convict settlement, Hobart has had continuous, modest growth.
- Highlights include the rainforest walkway at Heritage Landing and the remains of the Sarah Island convict settlement.
- He was sent to the Andaman Islands to reorganize the convict settlement there.
- Take a cruise to Bruny Island to see spectacular wildlife or drive to Port Arthur to discover Australia's first convict settlement.
- Mandatory sentencing is a nasty, insidious creation of our generation that not even the convict settlement introduced.
- We know it was a hell-on-earth convict settlement back in the 1800s.