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The Archives Office of Tasmania (AOT), 1965-Ongoing is the Tasmanian government agency responsible for the archival records of the State of Tasmania.The Archives Act 1965 established the Archives Office of Tasmania as an independent entity, but it remained within the then Tasmanian State Library Department.
The convict records of Tasmania's colonial founders and survivors are held by the State Library of New South Wales and the Tasmanian Archives and Heritage Office accessible through LINC Tasmania. These convict records are listed on the UNESCO Memory of the World heritage database as being a record of forced emigration at the beginning of the ...
Convict life – State Library of New South Wales; Australian Convict Transportation Registers; The National Archives (UK) Convict Transportation Registers database; The Albany Historical Society; Convict Queenslanders; Thomas J. Nevin's photographs of Tasmanian convicts 1870s at Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery
Northern Territory Archives Service; Public Record Office Victoria; State Library of Tasmania; State Library of Victoria; Archive Services Centre of Victoria Police - 135,000 boxes, part of over 500,000 items over more than 200 sites that they are responsible for. [1] Queensland State Archives; State Records Authority of New South Wales
The Archives Office of Tasmania had been a separate entity from the Tasmanian state library, despite being housed in the same building. [4] [5] The W E Crowther collection was a special component of the State Library prior to the amalgamation, and was frequently referred to as being the major part of the Heritage Collections of the State Library.
The West Coast of Tasmania has a significant convict heritage. The use of the west coast as an outpost to house convicts in isolated penal settlements occurred in the eras 1822–33, and 1846–47. The main locations were Sarah Island (known by many in the late twentieth century as Settlement Island) and Grummet Island in Macquarie Harbour.
This is a list of people executed in Van Diemen's Land (1803-1856), the Colony of Tasmania (1856-1901) and since 1901, the federated island state of Tasmania, Australia.It lists people who were executed by British (and from 1901, Australian) authorities within the modern-day boundaries of Tasmania.
The Port Arthur convict settlement was established in September 1830 as a timber-getting camp, producing sawn logs for government projects. From 1833 until 1877, it was the destination for those deemed the most hardened of transported convicts ― so-called "secondary offenders" ― who had persistently re-offended during their time in Australia.