Port Arthur is a town located on the Tasman Peninsula in eastern Tasmania. From 1833, it was used as a British penal colony. A prison was constructed on the site in the 1850s, and finally closed in 1877. The site is now a museum. In 1996, it was the site of the post-colonial Australia’s worst mass murder, when a gunman killed 35 people and injured 23.
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