Heritage Site
Coal Mines Historic Site Tasmania
Saltwater River, TAS
The Story
The Coal Mines Historic Site on the Tasman Peninsula is a World Heritage-listed property preserving the ruins of the convict-operated coal mines — the most severe place of punishment in Van Diemen's Land, where the worst offenders laboured underground in conditions of exceptional hardship.
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