was a familiar sound for the residents of Port Arthur in Australia’s island state of Tasmania. The place was once known for being a penal settlement, where convicts were transported to by the ...

But Tasmania has also always had a Jewish population in its capital city of Hobart, which was set up in 1804 as a penal colony for exiled British convicts. Eight Jews were tallied among the ...

For those seeking an edge-of-the-world experience, the Tasman Peninsula in southeastern Tasmania delivers. Beyond its historical fame as home to the Port Arthur penal colony, the region draws ...