convict settlement

The island had been abandoned since the first convict settlement was finally removed in 1814.

It also has a significant history of convict settlement.

A new convict settlement was named after him, and became today's city of Brisbane.

His work also included landscape sketches providing important insights into the convict settlement.

There are also very old flags dating from the time when Tasmania stopped being a convict settlement.

In 1851, she lived for twelve months at the convict settlement of Port Arthur.

They had been as pretty a bunch of rogues as would be found in any convict settlement.

For two periods during the first half of the 19th century, Maria Island hosted convict settlements.

It was a convict settlement, the start of a plan to transport thousands of prisoners to Australia.

He later became commandant at the Moreton Bay convict settlement.

The town was first established as a mainland port for the convict settlement on Maria Island.

The convict settlement lasted barely two months.

It was explorer John Oxley who had been searching up and down the coast for a new convict settlement.

He regarded the convict settlement there as "a disgrace to England" and tried to replace slackness by strict control.

During convict settlement, explorers passed through the region but it was not until 1865 that the first settlers started farming the area's rich alluvial soil.

From Sydney a second convict settlement was established at Hobart, in Tasmania.

Only the Rocks, below the Argyle Cut, remind the curious of what the earlier convict settlement must have been like.

No wonder that but one party, escaping from Macquarrie Harbor convict settlement, arrived at the civilized region in safety.

Hyam examines such subjects as sexual exploitation under slavery, sexual coercion in convict settlements.

The famous Botany Bay cover of east Leicestershire dates from the 1790s, when the convict settlement was in the news.

Since then some scholars have argued that the British committed biological warfare in 1789 near their new convict settlement at Port Jackson.

Before European settlement the area was inhabited by the Aborigines, and this use continued for some time after the establishment of a convict settlement.

Rottnest Island, off the coast of Perth, became the colony's convict settlement in 1838 and was used for local colonial offenders.

He was sentenced and transported to the convict settlement at Sydney Cove for the space of fourteen years on 31 August 1793.

During the time of the subsequent convict settlement (1825-41), Kangaroo Point was cleared and used for cultivation of crops.