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Port Arthur: Then and Now

Convict settlement in Tasmania founded in 1830, where repeat offenders from across the Australian colonies were held.

As it was
Port Arthur, as it was
The ruins of Port Arthur in The Weekly Times (1919). The Weekly Times, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
The ruins today
Port Arthur, the ruins today
Martybugs at en.wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Key facts

Country todayAustralia
StatusRuins
Date1830
Nearest city on the mapHobart (about 52 km)
Location43.146° S, 147.851° E
Map showing Port Arthur in 1815Port Arthur
Border map for 1815. See the world in 1815.

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Who ruled this place

Derived from the border maps; each row runs until the next recorded border change.

PeriodState
500 BC–301 BCTasmanian hunter-gatherers
300 BC–201 BCAustralian aboriginal hunter-gatherers
200 BC–1782Tasmanian hunter-gatherers
1783–1814Aboriginal Tasmanians
1815–1913Unclaimed / no data
1914–todayAustralia

More: Historic landmarks of Australia · All landmarks

Further reading

Last updated 9 November 2026. Sources: border data from historical-basemaps, land and rivers from Natural Earth; texts written for Chronica Maps from standard reference works. How we make the maps.