05-23-2023-0037 - Tasmania, Port Arthur, etc. (draft)

Port Arthur, declared a World Heritage Site in 2010

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tasmania

Port Arthur, Tasmania

UNESCO World Heritage Site
View of Port Arthur, Tasmania, one of the 11 penal sites constituting the Australian Convict Sites
Part of	Australian Convict Sites
Criteria	Cultural: iv, vi
Reference	1306-008
Inscription	2010 (34th Session)
Area	146 ha
Buffer zone	1,216.51 ha
Website	portarthur.org.au

Port Arthur Tasmania
Port Arthur
Coordinates	43°09′0″S 147°51′0″E
Population	251 (2016 census)[1]
Established	1830
Postcode(s)	7182
Location	97 km (60 mi) SE of Hobart 19 km (12 mi) S of Eaglehawk Neck
LGA(s)	Tasman Council
State electorate(s)	Lyons
Federal division(s)	Lyons
Mean max temp Mean min temp Annual rainfall 14.8 °C 59 °F 8.2 °C 47 °F 1,148.8 mm 45.2 in

Location of Port Arthur.

Port Arthur is a town and former convict settlement on the Tasman Peninsula, in Tasmania, Australia. It is located approximately 97 kilometres (60 mi) southeast of the state capital, Hobart.

The site forms part of the Australian Convict Sites, 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. Collectively, these sites, including Port Arthur, are described by UNESCO as "... the best surviving examples of large-scale convict transportation and the colonial expansion of European powers through the presence and labour of convicts."^[3]

In 1996, the town was the scene of the Port Arthur massacre, the worst instance of mass murder in post-colonial Australian history. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_Arthur,_Tasmania

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Antarctic_and_subantarctic_islands#List_of_Antarctic_islands_north_of_60%C2%B0_S

 

Illustration from John Nunn's book about the three years he and his shipwrecked crew survived on the island in the 1820s.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerguelen_Islands

 

Cook Ice Cap
Calotte Glaciaire Cook
Aerial view of the ice cap.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cook_Ice_Cap