Winner of the 2008 Tasmanian Tourism Awards for Major Tourist Attraction, Heritage and Cultural Tourism and Best Heritage Tourism were all won by the Port Arthur Historic Site. You will find the Port Arthur Historic Site is Australia’s most intact and evocative convict sites. This is a great place to learn about life for the early convicts. The site has over thirty buildings and ruins. There are restored period homes and is set in forty hectares of landscaped grounds. You will need to allow plenty of time to really enjoy and see the site properly. The site entry fee entitles you to two consecutive days to visit and includes the Introductory Guided Walking Tour, the Harbor Cruise and access to the Museum and Convict Study Centre & Interpretation Gallery and the dockyard site.

You can also cruise to the Isle of the Dead for a little extra and join a guided tour of Port Arthur’s burial ground. You will discover an insight into the settlement and those who lived there including the convicts, soldiers and the early settlers and their families. You could also add a trip to the Point Puer Boys Prison, which was the first British Empire built reformatory for juvenile male convicts. Point Puer Boys Prison was known for its stern discipline and harsh punishments. The remains of the structures built by these boys are still here to see.

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