Australian convict sites
Sites included on the world heritage list of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization have been judged as places of importance to everyone in the world.
The 11 Australian convict sites now World Heritage listed highlight Australia's convict beginnings, and their history illustrates changing attitudes towards crime, punishment and the treatment of prisoners throughout the 18th and 19th centuries. As a group these sites represent the different forms of penal institutions and systems of labour to which convicts sent to Australia between 1788 and 1868 were subjected.
ON NORFOLK ISLAND
Kingston and Arthur's Vale Historic Area
IN NEW SOUTH WALES
Hyde Park Barracks, Sydney
Old Government House and Domain, Parramatta
Cockatoo Island Convict Site, Sydney Harbour
Old Great North Road, Upper Hawkesbury
IN WESTERN AUSTRALIA
Fremantle Prison, Fremantle
IN TASMANIA
Port Arthur Historic Site, Tasman Peninsula
Cascades Female Factory, Hobart
Coal Mines Historic Site, Tasman Peninsula
Brickendon-Woolmers Estates, near Longford
Darlington Probation Station, Maria Island
The 11 Australian convict sites now World Heritage listed highlight Australia's convict beginnings, and their history illustrates changing attitudes towards crime, punishment and the treatment of prisoners throughout the 18th and 19th centuries. As a group these sites represent the different forms of penal institutions and systems of labour to which convicts sent to Australia between 1788 and 1868 were subjected.
ON NORFOLK ISLAND
Kingston and Arthur's Vale Historic Area
IN NEW SOUTH WALES
Hyde Park Barracks, Sydney
Old Government House and Domain, Parramatta
Cockatoo Island Convict Site, Sydney Harbour
Old Great North Road, Upper Hawkesbury
IN WESTERN AUSTRALIA
Fremantle Prison, Fremantle
IN TASMANIA
Port Arthur Historic Site, Tasman Peninsula
Cascades Female Factory, Hobart
Coal Mines Historic Site, Tasman Peninsula
Brickendon-Woolmers Estates, near Longford
Darlington Probation Station, Maria Island