Entrance Island Lighthouse, MacQuarie Harbour, Tasmania, Australia

by Elaine Teague

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Entrance Island Lighthouse, MacQuarie Harbour, Tasmania, Australia

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Elaine Teague

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Taken on the Gordon River Cruise from Strahan

The Entrance Island and Bonnet Island Lighthouses stand at the entrance to Macquarie Harbour, a huge inland sea of about 100 square miles. The entrance is known as 'Hell's Gates' apparently due to the first convicts seeing it as their initiation into their entrance to hell.

The Macquarie Harbour Penal Station, a former British colonial penal settlement, established on Sarah Island, Macquarie Harbour, in the former colony of Van Diemen's Land, now Tasmania, operated between 1822 and 1833. The settlement housed male convicts, with a small number of women housed on a nearby island. During its 11 years of operation, the penal colony achieved a reputation as one of the harshest penal settlements in the Australian colonies.

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