Norfolk Island
Norfolk Island guide
As well as being a penal establishment, one of the primary reasons for the first settlement at Norfolk Island was economic: the Colonial Government hoped to utilise the flax and pine trees on Norfolk Island
The Elizabeth Farm dripstone
Next time you turn on the tap and pour a glass of cool, clean water, think about how people in Sydney managed almost two hundred years ago
Convict Sydney
Tom and Fowler
On 4 May 1843, Fowler and fifteen other Aboriginal men broke into watchman Patrick Carroll’s hut near the McLeay River, 107 miles from Port Macquarie
Convict Sydney
Norfolk Island
A hellish prison outpost was established in two phases on Norfolk Island between 1788 and 1855
Convict life on Norfolk Island
Convict life on Norfolk Island was severe and often brutal. Below is a snapshot of one convict, John Walsh, who spent ten years on Norfolk Island from 1834 to 1844