The visitor to Port Arthur Tasmania arrives primed with infernal images of its days as a penal colony; a wretched purgatory when it wasn’t a living hell. So dire was what passed for a life in ...

Learn all about Australia's penal colony history at the Unesco World Heritage Site-listed Port Arthur in Tasmania. ... serving as a penitentiary for the next 23 years until the penal settlement ...

Port Arthur, a historic former convict settlement in Tasmania, looked like a scene out of a horror movie. The perfect place for a Ghost Tour.

ONE of Tasmania’s most prized historic sites is undergoing a delicate, complex restoration on a scale not previously undertaken in Australia. Builders, conservation experts, archaeologists ...

Tasmania’s vast array of convict records will soon be brought to life in spectacular fashion with the launch of a new hi-tech Convict Memorial Hub at the old Penitentiary Chapel.

Tasmania’s vast array of convict records will soon be brought to life in spectacular fashion with the launch of a new hi-tech Convict Memorial Hub at the old Penitentiary Chapel.