Coal Mines Historic Site

Coal Mines Historic Site
View of ruins in the Coal Mines area.
Type	Historic Site
Location	Saltwater Creek Rd, Little Norfolk Bay, Tasman Peninsula
Coordinates	42°59′1″S 147°42′59″E / 42.98361°S 147.71639°E / -42.98361; 147.71639Coordinates: 42°59′1″S 147°42′59″E / 42.98361°S 147.71639°E / -42.98361; 147.71639[1]
Area	352.47 hectares[1]
Status	Australian National Heritage List World Heritage list
Website	http://www.parks.tas.gov.au/index.aspx?base=2560

Coal Mines Historic Site was, for a period of 15 years (1833–48), a convict probation station^[2] 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"^[3].

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^[2] and UNESCO's World Heritage list^[4] 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."^[5]

See also

• Australian Convict Sites

External links

• "Coal Mines Historic Site (entry AHD105931)". Australian Heritage Database. Department of Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities. http://www.environment.gov.au/cgi-bin/ahdb/search.pl?mode=place_detail;place_id=105931. 

References

1. ^ ^{a b} Chapter 1 of Australian Government's "Australian Convict Sites" World Heritage nomination Accessed 5 August 2010
2. ^ ^{a b} Australian Department of Environment, Water, Heritage, and the Arts "Coal Mines Historic Site" webpages 5 August 2010
3. ^ Parks and Wildlife Service Tasmania's "Coal Mines" website Accessed 5 August 2010
4. ^ Australia's Department of Environment, Heritage, Water and the Arts "World Heritage: Australian Convict Sites" webpage Accessed 2 August 2010
5. ^ UNESCO's World Heritage "Australian Convict Sites" webpages Accessed 2 August 2010