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Australia was first settled by the Europeans in the 1780’s with convicted criminals From Great Britain these criminals were sentenced to transportation Port Arthur was sold as an inescapable prison. It’s a small town and former convict settlement on the Tasman Peninsula, in Tasmania, Australia. Port Arthur was a huge penal colony from 1830 to the 1870s. From 1833, until the 1850s, it was a destination for the hardest of convicted British and Irish criminals, those who were offenders having re-offended after their arrival in Australia. Port Arthur was also the destination for juvenile convicts, receiving many boys, some as young as nine arrested for stealing toys. The boys were separated from the main convict population and kept on the other side of the jail, the British Empire's first boys' prison. Like the adults, the boys were used in hard labour such as stone cutting and construction

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