Tasmania: Port Arthur

Tasmania's #1 tourist attraction was dubbed "Hell on Earth". This is where over 12,000 convicts arrived from Britain, living under threat of lashings and experimental measures that often drove the convicts to madness. Historic ruins illuminate their lives and that of their guards. Embark upon the cruise to visit the "Isle of the Dead", the cemetery for the colony.

The onsite Memorial Garden is dedicated to victims of the 1996 tragedy where 35 people were killed by single gunman -- the greatest anywhere in the world (not even in the USA).