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单词 convict station
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Definition of convict station in English:

convict station

noun
Australian historical
  • A place designed for the imprisonment and punishment of convicts.

    one of the most appalling and cruel of all the convict stations
    Example sentencesExamples
    • In 1834 he was appointed political and military governor of the island of Juan Fernandez, then used as a convict station by Chile.
    • It's home to Australia's best-known convict station and famed among surfers for the wild waves at Shipstern Bluff.
    • Despite at least two warnings from the colony's governor, he persisted and was sent to the convict stations on the island.
    • The National Park has a varied history of European occupation: it was a whaling station in the early 1800s, then a convict station.
    • The penal colony, known everywhere as one of the most appalling and cruel of all the convict stations, operated from Sarah Island.
    • Most black convicts from the 'Old Prison' were transferred to the De Beers convict station to be hired at reduced rates.
    • The grey-green swell; the cold, stark light; the mournful, deserted island with its ruined convict station; what did they remind us of?
    • As the number of convicts declined in the next two years, he was able to close a number of the convict stations near Hobart.
    • Before Port Arthur, there was Maria Island, a convict station in the sea.
    • Tasman's Inn, once the Norfolk Bay Convict Station, is a green and white building on a side road.
 
 
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