view the asylum which was completed 1868 last major structure built penal colony

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View of the asylum which was completed in 1868, it was last major structure to be built at the penal colony

Port Arthur is a town and former convict settlement on the Tasman Peninsula, in Tasmania, Australia. 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.