Type Historic Site Area 3.525 km² | Type Cultural Phone +61 1800 659 101 | |
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Status Australian National Heritage ListWorld Heritage list Address Coal Mines Road, C341, Via Premaydena, Saltwater River TAS 7186, Australia Hours Open today · 6AM–8PMWednesday6AM–8PMThursday6AM–8PMFriday6AM–8PMSaturday6AM–8PMSunday6AM–8PMMonday6AM–8PMTuesday6AM–8PM Similar Cascades Female Factory, Port Arthur Historic Site, Woolmers Estate, Brickendon Estate, Old Government House - P | ||
Coal mines historic site
Coal Mines Historic Site was, for a period of 15 years (1833–48), a convict probation station and the site of Tasmania's (then Van Diemen's Land's) first operational coal mine, "serving as a place of punishment for the 'worst class' of convicts from Port Arthur".
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It is now the site of a collection of ruins and landscape modifications located amongst bushland facing onto the Tasman Peninsula's Little Norfolk Bay, being ruins and landscape modifications of such cultural significance to Australia and to the World that the site has been formally inscribed onto both the Australian National Heritage List and UNESCO's World Heritage list as amongst:
" .. the best surviving examples of large-scale convict transportation and the colonial expansion of European powers through the presence and labour of convicts."