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Port Arthur Historic Site

The ruins of a 19th-century convict prison on the Tasman Peninsula, about 1½ hours from Hobart.

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A day

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The ruins of a 19th-century convict prison on the Tasman Peninsula, about 1½ hours from Hobart.

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