List of Australian penal colonies
The following is a list of Australian penal colonies that existed from the establishment of European presence in the 1780s up until the nineteenth century.[citation needed] The term colony had referred to settlements and larger land areas at that time.
Settlement | Colony | Year opened | Year closed |
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Cockatoo Island | New South Wales | 1839 | 1869 |
Rose Hill | New South Wales | 1788 | |
Sydney Cove | New South Wales | 1788 | 1840 |
Moreton Bay | Queensland (New South Wales before 1859) | 1824 | |
Redcliffe | Queensland | 1823 | 1824 |
Maria Island | Van Diemen's Land[note 1] | 1825 | 1851 |
Port Arthur | Van Diemen's Land | 1830 | |
Richmond | Van Diemen's Land | 1830 | |
Risdon Cove | Van Diemen's Land | 1794 | |
Sarah Island, part of the Macquarie Harbour Penal Station | Van Diemen's Land | 1822 | 1833 |
Saltwater River | Van Diemen's Land | 1879 | 1970 |
Sullivans Cove | Van Diemen's Land | 1914 | |
King George's Sound | Western Australia | 1826 | 1832[note 2] |
Swan River Colony | Western Australia | 1850 | 1868[note 3] |
Norfolk Island | Other | 1788 | 1855[note 4] |
This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. (August 2008) |
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- Assignment
- Australia Day
- Emancipation
- Female factories
- Freedom
- History of Australia (1788–1850)
- New Holland
- Women
- First Fleet (1788)
- Second Fleet (1789)
- Third Fleet (1791)
- Lady Shore mutiny (1797)
- Castle Hill Rebellion (1804)
- Rum Rebellion (1808)
- Capture of the brig Emu (1813)
- Argo disappearance (1814)
- Norfolk Island mutinies (1826–1846)
- Cyprus mutiny (1829)
- Bathurst rebellion (1830)
- Badger escape (1833)
- Frederick escape (1834)
- Wreck of the George III (1835)
- Wreck of the Hive (1835)
- Wreck of the Neva (1835)
- Cooking Pot Uprising (1846)
- Catalpa rescue (1876)
- Anti-Transportation League
- First Fleet
- Second Fleet
- Third Fleet
- New South Wales
- Norfolk Island
- Tasmania
- Western Australia
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Convict Sites
- Brickendon Estate
- Cadmans Cottage
- Cascades Female Factory
- Coal Mines
- Commissariat Store, Brisbane
- Darlington Probation Station
- Elizabeth Farm
- Experiment Farm Cottage
- Fremantle Prison
- Great North Road
- Hyde Park Barracks
- Kingston and Arthur's Vale
- Lennox Bridge
- Old Government House
- Parramatta Female Factory
- Port Arthur
- Richmond Bridge
- Richmond Gaol
- Ross Female Factory
- The Old Windmill, Brisbane
- Vaucluse House
- Woolmers Estate