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29th anniversary of the day when the babysitting kids of my g/f were killed, and mates at Friday after work drinks had half a dozen colleagues and relatives killed. Unregulated private gun ownership is bollocks. #PortArthur
Confirmed #tornado near #PortArthur moving east at 25 mph. Seek shelter immediately if you are in this area. High chance remains for severe thunderstorms and tornadoes today across parts of the Deep South. Have multiple way to receive weather alerts. #wx
The Russo-Japanese War, Part 2
After securing the southern portion of Liaodong Province, the Imperial Japanese Army proceeded to besiege Port Arthur while simultaneously fighting Russian forces to their north in increasingly costly and difficult battles.
https://ahistoryofjapan.com/2024/12/23/the-russo-japanese-war-part-2/
#Meiji #Season13 #Emperor #History #Japan #Liaodong #Manchuria #Meiji #PortArthur #Russia #RussoJapaneseWar #Sandepu #Shaho
The Russo-Japanese War, Part 1
In February of 1904, the Imperial Japanese Navy launched a surprise attack on Port Arthur and initiate the Russo-Japanese War
https://ahistoryofjapan.com/2024/12/19/the-russo-japanese-war-part-1/
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And to finish, Government Cottage, where Important Visitors stayed.
Behind is the church, with is just the perimeter walls & tower (which I loved on my first (remember) visit when I was nine.)
Some last photos of #PortArthur
This was the front of the law courts (I wonder if that have been called the police office).
OK Port Arthur.
(I spent a good part of this afternoon trying to determine if Port Arthur had a Police Office. Currently, it seems not, despite me having a deed box from said PO sitting on my desk. This is business as usual :) )
So, let's talk the convict system and I can remember how much I've forgotten. Prisoners arriving in Van Diemen's Land in the early part of the century were subject to the Assignment System (this was replaced by the Probation System about 1840 but assignment is what most people have heard about.
Simply put, prisoners servants were sent out to work for "free settlers" i.e. those not under sentence. Their employer was expected to provide them with food, clothing soap and other necessities, and in return they got cheap labour and were responsible for them. (Side note: for married couples, one spouse could be assigned to the other.) Now, if said PS would good, they'd earn indulgences, such as a Ticket of Leave, which granted privileges such as being able to work ofr oneself (i.e. earn money) and then a Conditional Pardon, which gave you all the rights of a free person, except you couldn't return home.
However, if they misbehaved, they were punished. For men this meant hard labour, hard labour in chains, or being sent to a place of secondary punishment. One of these established on Sarah Island, in Macquarie Harbour, on the west coast, for the worst of the worst. It was remote and surrounded by inhospitable rainforest. And then on Maria Island on the east coast, for the not quite so worst of the worse. Not so remote and surrounded by sea. Unfortunately, Sarah Island was too remote. Winds made it difficult to negotiate the entrance and it was a long trip from Hobart, but prisoners kept trying to escape. Whereas Sarah Island was too close to the coast (swimming distance actually).
So, a new station was established on Tasman's Peninsula c.1830, and the others closed down. To get to the peninsula, you first have to get through Forestiers Peninsula, and then cross a narrow spit of land to Tasman. That narrow spit of land was guarded, by both soldiers and row of nasty dogs. So no escaping (mostly). But it was fairly easy trip from Hobart by ship. It was surrounded by a no-go zone from civilian ships though.
So, Port Arthur, home to the all habitual troublemakers and recalcitrant prisoners, for about forty years.
Ihr wollt helfen das kein dreckiges #Fracking #LNG importiert wird?
Die Menschen an der sogenannten #CancerCoast haben mit vielen Problemen zu kämpfen. Sie sind meist arm, nicht-weiss und gehören einer #sacrificezone an aus der sie meist nicht entfliehen können.
Helft doch an Ort und Stelle dem #PortArthur Community Action Network. Informiert euch, teilt, und spendet!
#KlimagerechtigkeitKS #kligk #Klimakrise
#FrackingFreiesHessen #GegenGasbohren
Peter #Dutton, in response to the stabbing of a Bishop in Sydney:
"We've never had civil conflict as part of our history" #EurekaStockade #antivaxxers
"If people have differences of opinion... it needs to be done in a respectful way"
#TheVoice #Woolworths #PortArthur #AnzacDay
Three more snaps from the Tasman Peninsula - not from Port Arthur but locations not far away.
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Here's a bonus Port Arthur post. While the prison is a thoroughly depressing place, the surrounding countryside and coast is gorgeous.
This is taken from the boat tour round the island used as a cemetery - which you see can behind the foreground promontory.
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5/5 Port Arthur
To finish this set from Port Arthur in Tasmania - a prison for transported convicts that offended again in Tasmania - here are somemore impressionistic shots of the main building of which the bare structure is all that remains.
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4/5 Port Arthur
Here's the prison chapel. Each prisoner had their own booth isolated from their neighbour - no communication allowed. (IIRC there's a very similar one in the UK's Lincoln prison.)
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3/5 Port Arthur
The ruins of the church.
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2/5 Port Arthur
One corridor of the panopticon style prison where silence and isolation was enforced.
1/5 Tasmania 3 This week a final set from Tasmania dating from last year's trip (November).
This the main building at Port Arthur on the Tasman Peninsula to the south of Hobart.. This was a prison where British convicts transported to Tasmania were incarcerated if they re-offended. It's a desperately sad place though in a beautiful setting.
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