Macquarie Harbour is one of the most stunning places in Australia. Sarah Island is close to the mouth of the Gordon River. The convicts were forced to use this river as the transportation for cut huon pine logs. Even in the depths of winter they were forced to get into the river and push the logs along (so in waters approx 3-8 degrees C). I have paddled this river up to the confluence of the Franklin River and then back to Sarah Island. I highly recommend this paddle to anyone. PS: The huon pine logs are really a very dense heavy log, so many of the logs pushed along by the convicts just simply sank to the bottom of Macquarie Harbour. This is the primary source of huon pine as a boat building timber. Logs possibly dating back to 1824 are still on the bottom, but in pristine condition. They fetch huge money as a timber for boat building.

It is a truly foreboding place. Enormous beauty captured by horrific isolation and despair.

The things that showed up in photos on Sarah island were troubling such a dark highly charged place of suffering ...yet so beautiful!!

Having grown up on the West Coast, Macquarie harbour was always a place for fishing and getting away, such a beautiful place and such a history

The story of the English transportation system, their institution of punishment, degradation and notion that the breaking of the individual was wholesome under God is worth understanding, especially if you are Australian. In my life of reading the English science of, & investment in punishment stands out as a modern horror story. Read about Alexander Pearce. He was at Macquarie harbour. I've been to Port Arthur as a boy and the place felt soaked in pain.

Hobart was called Hobart Town during the convict era.

It's terrible to think that the British Government could be so cruel to another human being, whatever they have done, & many convicts were punished for the most simple offences, & I could imagine how hated the convicted men felt towards their captors, & it was found, that "grinding bad men good"did not work, & being at Macquarie Harbour would surely send men insane, & it just goes to show, that you can't treat human beings like animals, or they will behave like animals, British brutality at a truly horrific place.

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Thank you sir for explaining brutality by both the police n convicts of Tasmania. Never heard any such brutality before. Good day.

I appreciate your content.

Anyone who likes to read have a look at "The Ship That Never Was" a fascinating account of tne last ship launched at Sarah Island ant the "non mutiny" which occurred.

As usual, prison employees and wardens should be prisoners themselves. Im sure a few prisoners were bad men, but not as many as the staff.

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How very horrible.

I just went on the gordon river tour and went to sarah island. Suffice to say it really makes you appreciate what everyone went through to make Australia what it is today.

Speak up sonny! I can't hear this over the sound of my bowels erupting

Convicts are convicts. o mercy!

But only the indigenous had it bad 😂😂😂

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When Thylacines roamed the land.

Please, let's ditch this silly word, 'indigenous'' with the apt Aborigine. After all I am a white Australian, indigenous to Sydney, but not an Aborigine.