Australian Convict Sites is a World Heritage property consisting of 11 remnant penal sites originally built within the British Empire during the 18th and 19th centuries on fertile Australian coastal strips at Sydney, Tasmania, Norfolk Island, and Fremantle; now representing "...the best surviving examples of large-scale convict transportation and the colonial expansion of European powers through the presence and labour of convicts".[1]
^"Australian Convict Sites". World Heritage List. UNESCO. 2010. Retrieved 2 August 2010.
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AustralianConvictSites is a World Heritage property consisting of 11 remnant penal sites originally built within the British Empire during the 18th and...
January 2018). "Australia's last living convict bucked the trend of reoffending". ABC News. Retrieved 19 February 2022. "AustralianConvictSites". World Heritage...
incident was the first major convict uprising in Australian history to be suppressed under martial law. On 4 March 1804, 233 convicts, led by Philip Cunningham...
from the original on 24 May 2011. Retrieved 5 November 2022. "AustralianConvictSites". UNESCO World Heritage Centre. Archived from the original on 20...
other Australiansites with a significant association with convict transportation were inscribed as a group on the World Heritage List as the Australian Convict...
"Old Government House". National Trust. "Old Government House". AustralianConvictSites. "The Hermitage - The Last Hurrah". aMUSine. "The Castle on the...
Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania...
sites that collectively compose the AustralianConvictSites, listed on the World Heritage List by UNESCO. Collectively the AustralianConvictSites represent...
Sites Chapter 1 of Australian Government's "AustralianConvictSites" World Heritage nomination Accessed 5 August 2010 Australian Department of Environment...
several, widely scattered locations in the AustralianConvictSites. The sites are: Cockatoo Island ConvictSite, Hyde Park Barracks, Old Government House...
Heritage Sites. Five years later, these locations were inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 2010 as the AustralianConvictSites. The process...
The convict era of Western Australia was the period during which Western Australia was a penal colony of the British Empire. Although it received small...
"World Heritage Committee approves AustralianConvictSites as places of importance". The Courier–Mail. Australia. Archived from the original on 3 June...
Australia began with the arrival of the First Fleet in 1788 and ended in 1868. Overall, approximately 165,000 convicts were transported to Australia....
first British colonists and convicts to Australia. It comprised two Royal Navy vessels, three store ships and six convict transports. On 13 May 1787 the...
Convict women in Australia were British prisoners whom the government increasingly sent out during the era of transportation (1787–1868) in order to develop...
Highway to Port Arthur, part of the AustralianConvictSites, a World Heritage Site that comprises eleven remnant penal sites originally built within the British...
the World Heritage list as AustralianConvictSites and amongst the world's " .. best surviving examples of large-scale convict transportation and the colonial...
(Place ID 105931)". Australian Heritage Database. Australian Government. Chapter 1 of Australian Government's "AustralianConvictSites" World Heritage nomination...
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