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Closing Hell's Gates: the death of a convict station
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For twelve long years between 1822 and 1834, Sarah Island in Macquarie Harbour was the most feared place in Australia - a place so remote that those sent there as punishment felt condemned to an underworld. Clinging to the shores of the wild west coast of Tasmania and hemmed in on all sides by vast, mountainous landscape, the environment itself formed the prison walls. While some chose death or were driven mad by the brutal conditions, others clung, against all odds, to the hope of escape through the rugged uncharted wilderness.
A remarkable tale of murder and intrigue brilliantly pieced together from thousands of original records, Closing Hell's Gates recounts the stories of the people who lived in Australia's most notorious penal station, and in so doing reveals some startling insights about human nature when it is pushed to extremes.
For twelve long years between 1822 and 1834, Sarah Island in Macquarie Harbour was the most feared place in Australia - a place so remote that those sent there as punishment felt condemned to an underworld. Clinging to the shores of the wild west coast of Tasmania and hemmed in on all sides by vast, mountainous landscape, the environment itself formed the prison walls. While some chose death or were driven mad by the brutal conditions, others clung, against all odds, to the hope of escape through the rugged uncharted wilderness.
A remarkable tale of murder and intrigue brilliantly pieced together from thousands of original records, Closing Hell's Gates recounts the stories of the people who lived in Australia's most notorious penal station, and in so doing reveals some startling insights about human nature when it is pushed to extremes.
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