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Macquarie Harbour

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Macquarie Harbour

Inlet of the Indian Ocean, western Tasmania, Australia. It is 20 mi (32 km) long and 5 mi (8 km) wide. Visited in 1815 by Capt. James Kelly, it was named after Lachlan Macquarie, governor of New South Wales. Its coast was the site of a penal colony 1821–33.



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On 20 September 1822 Alexander Pearce and seven comrades escaped from the penal settlement of Sarah Island in Macquarie Harbour in Tasmania's remote south west.
She had accompanied her husband in 1821 to Macquarie Harbour on the west coast of Tasmania where Waddy was the storekeeper in the first settlement to be established there.
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