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map shows a burgeoning settlement, but no walls or gaol to conine the convicts. It was an ‘open’ prison, where convicts lived in their own tents and huts — and were employed on public works and farms — making escape into the bush relatively easy.
An early map of Botany Bay, site of the first Australian penal colony. Australian penal colonies refers to the transportation of approximately 162,000 prison convicts from Britain and Ireland to Australia and Tasmania in the eighty year period between 1788 and 1868.
28 Απρ 2020 · Botany Bay on the Australian coast, he contended, would be the best site for a penal colony since it had a Mediterranean climate and would be fertile. Banks added, too, that. there would be...
About 162,000 male and female prisoners were sent to Botany Bay between 1788 and 1868, the last year that convicts were sent there. Most prisoners at Botany Bay were from England, Ireland, or Scotland, but some were from other colonies of England such as Canada, India, New Zealand, Hong Kong, and the countries of the Caribbean Sea.
In 1791 the government announced the establishment of a penal colony at Botany Bay, but transportation had already begun by the time Bentham’s proposal for a penitentiary house came before the government.
In May 1787, eleven ships left England with more than seven hundred convicts on board, along with orders to establish a penal colony at Botany Bay, New South Wales.
Botany Bay as a new British settlement (the letter to Treasury dated I8 August 1786 from Lord Sydney, Secretary of State for the Home Office)' stated categorically that it was so chosen to be the destination urgently needed to rid Britain of an overflow of felons in her prisons, and with no other purpose mentioned, it has been assumed, until
