Truly Horrible History: Macquarie Harbour Penal Station
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 25 ส.ค. 2024
- The penal station on Sarah Island in Macquarie Harbour was one of the most vicious institutions in Australian history.
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Macquarie Harbour is one of the most stunning places in Australia. Sarah Island is close to the mouth of the Gordon River. The convicts were forced to use this river as the transportation for cut huon pine logs. Even in the depths of winter they were forced to get into the river and push the logs along (so in waters approx 3-8 degrees C). I have paddled this river up to the confluence of the Franklin River and then back to Sarah Island. I highly recommend this paddle to anyone. PS: The huon pine logs are really a very dense heavy log, so many of the logs pushed along by the convicts just simply sank to the bottom of Macquarie Harbour. This is the primary source of huon pine as a boat building timber. Logs possibly dating back to 1824 are still on the bottom, but in pristine condition. They fetch huge money as a timber for boat building.
It is a truly foreboding place. Enormous beauty captured by horrific isolation and despair.
The story of the English transportation system, their institution of punishment, degradation and notion that the breaking of the individual was wholesome under God is worth understanding, especially if you are Australian.
In my life of reading the English science of, & investment in punishment stands out as a modern horror story.
Read about Alexander Pearce. He was at Macquarie harbour.
I've been to Port Arthur as a boy and the place felt soaked in pain.
It was certainly a grim story.
Alexander Pearce is on my list of videos to do. I put a visual reference to him in at the end of this video as well.
I’ve also been to Port Arthur. You are right. It is an eerie place, doubly so given more recent events.
There is an excellent book on the settlement called “Misery of the Deepest Dye” by David Cameron, who also wrote one of my reference books for this video.
Having grown up on the West Coast, Macquarie harbour was always a place for fishing and getting away, such a beautiful place and such a history
It's terrible to think that the British Government could be so cruel to another human being, whatever they have done, & many convicts were punished for the most simple offences, & I could imagine how hated the convicted men felt towards their captors, & it was found, that "grinding bad men good"did not work, & being at Macquarie Harbour would surely send men insane, & it just goes to show, that you can't treat human beings like animals, or they will behave like animals, British brutality at a truly horrific place.
The things that showed up in photos on Sarah island were troubling such a dark highly charged place of suffering ...yet so beautiful!!
Ive been to Sarah Island. The Huon Pine slips where they built ships still exist. Most of the buildings were destroyed by locals in the early 20th century in an attempt to free themsleves of the convict slur. Natural flora has now retaken most of the island, it would have been interesting to see how it was in the convict days.
Hobart was called Hobart Town during the convict era.
This was so informative, thanks
Please do Blaxland Lawson and Wentworth 😮
Enjoyable, thanks!
I appreciate your content.
Thanks!
It was truly hell on Earth. Thanks for the video. I think you did great job n describing its horror.
As usual, prison employees and wardens should be prisoners themselves. Im sure a few prisoners were bad men, but not as many as the staff.
In fairness, unlike modern prison staff, the guards didn’t get to choose where they were posted or what their actual duties were. The regiment that was initially responsible for manning the station had fought in the Napoleonic Wars only a few years earlier before it was deployed to the New South Wales colony.
As for Cuthbertson….yeah
Thank you sir for explaining brutality by both the police n convicts of Tasmania. Never heard any such brutality before. Good day.
Anyone who likes to read have a look at "The Ship That Never Was" a fascinating account of tne last ship launched at Sarah Island ant the "non mutiny" which occurred.
Soothing voice
Listen to A Tale they won’t believe. A song by Wedding’s Parties Anything.
How very horrible.
Speak up sonny! I can't hear this over the sound of my bowels erupting
Convicts are convicts. o mercy!
But only the indigenous had it bad 😂😂😂
I just went on the gordon river tour and went to sarah island. Suffice to say it really makes you appreciate what everyone went through to make Australia what it is today.
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When Thylacines roamed the land.
Still there, seen one in 73, Hellyer gorge, picnic area, another one in 89 in back of Scottsdale,
Please, let's ditch this silly word, 'indigenous'' with the apt Aborigine. After all I am a white Australian, indigenous to Sydney, but not an Aborigine.
You’re an English Australian indigenous to England migrated to Australia
You don't have a good grasp of the English language, do you.
I have talked with numerous elders and most agree that the whites brought here as slaves by the colonists are now indigenous to this land and soil. It’s the GOVERNMENT that has no jurisdiction as it’s a foreign corporation. These facts will manifest themselves to the population over time.