"A lot of good it'll do me if I spend them all in some penal colony!"
A few years ago this used to be a penal colony.
It's a road that still might lead straight to a penal colony, at least for me.
The island was used as a penal colony from 1765 until 1886.
At this time the main island was being used as a penal colony.
The penal colony would survive for another year or so.
"But it would be wrong of me to simply send you to a penal colony."
It was used as a French penal colony from 1854 to 1938.
In 1959 the island was turned into a penal colony.
The street is historical significant to the city's early development as a penal colony.