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Any mutuals been to tasmania?

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Port Arthur Historic Site Tasmania

Port Arthur Historic Site Tasmania

Port Arthur Historic Site The World Heritage listed Port Arthur Historic Site contains over 30 buildings and extensive ruins. The listing reflects its importance to the story of forced migration and settlement of Australia. Primarily a penal settlement, Port Arthur also encompassed a wider community including military and civilian officers and their families. The preserved buildings and ruins…

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Coal Mines Historical Site Tasmania

Coal Mines Historical Site Tasmania

Coal Mines Historical Site The location of Tasmania’s first operational mine, the Coal Mines Historical Site, is now part of a World Heritage listed site where the ruins form a reminder of the past. Interpretive signs throughout the site not only describe the buildings use, but provide an insight into life there, by describing the lives of individual convicts. With the discovery of coal in the…

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Tasmania, Australia

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Government Gardens. As early as the 1830s ornamental trees were planted at Port Arthur. By 1838 the avenue leading to the church was lined with young trees. In 1846-7 an adjacent hop field was developed into an ornamental garden primarily for the enjoyment of the ladies of the settlement. The gardens were much admired and reached their peak in the late 1860s.

The Port Arthur Historic Site…

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