Coal Mines Historic Site was a convict probation stationAustralian Department of Environment, Water, Heritage, and the Arts "Coal Mines Historic Site" webpages 5 August 2010 and the site of Tasmania's (then Van Diemen's Land's) first operational coal mine, serving for a period of 15 years (1833–1848) "as a place of punishment for the 'worst class' of convicts from Port Arthur".Parks and Wildlife Service Tasmania's "Coal Mines" website Accessed 5 August 2010
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 listAustralia's Department of Environment, Heritage, Water and the Arts "World Heritage: Australian Convict Sites" webpage Accessed 2 August 2010 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.UNESCO's World Heritage "Australian Convict Sites" webpages Accessed 2 August 2010
See also Australian Convict Sites
References
External links
Tasmania Parks and Wildlife Service - Coal Mines Historic Site