A row of the remaining tiny narrow cells in the ruins of the Penitentiary at Port Arthur on the southeast coast of Tasmania in Australia. By 1840 the

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A row of the remaining tiny narrow cells in the ruins of the Penitentiary at Port Arthur on the southeast coast of Tasmania in Australia. By 1840 the former prison area accommodated 2,000 hardened convicts, guards and government civil servants from the UK and Ireland. The historic site is 60 miles from the State capital of Hobart and is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and World Heritage List as the Australian Convict Sites World Heritage property. Port Arthur finally closed in 1877 and was named after its first lieutenant governor, George Arthur, a sadist who meted out barbaric treatments to the convicts.

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Location: Port Arthur, Tasmania, Australia
Photo credit: © richard sowersby / Alamy / Afripics
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