Sentence examples for penal settlement from inspiring English sources

Eight years later Queensland received self-government, which was administered from Brisbane, originally the centre of a penal settlement.

The Amphitrite was a convict ship transporting female prisoners and their infants to the penal settlement in New South Wales.

Waterhouse broke the shaft of the spear so Phillip could escape by boat back to the penal settlement.

Under the enlightened governorship of Lachlan Macquarie (1810 21), Sydney developed from a precarious penal settlement into a thriving, respectable town.

Situated nearly 6,000 miles (9,650 km) east of Moscow, on the other side of Siberia, it was notorious as an imperial Russian penal settlement.

Transportation that is, the transport of prisoners to Van Diemen's Land ended in 1853, though the last penal settlement did not close until 1877.

His reports led to penal settlements at Port Macquarie and Port Curtis.

Since then, they have been used as penal settlements on many occasions, particularly for political prisoners.

Deportation has often had a broader meaning, including exile, banishment, and the transportation of criminals to penal settlements.

After the emancipation of slaves in 1848, it became a centre of French penal settlements in Guiana, established mainly as compensatory labour sources.

Back when Tasmania was Van Diemen's Land, places like Sarah Island (from which the cannibal Alexander Pearce escaped) were its harshest penal settlements.