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We landed at Hobart which is the capital, and noticed at once how English it feels. Lots of the buildings are old and I felt as if I was back in the Cotswolds.
There are only 480,000 inhabitants and many of the early "settlers" came from England - not that they had much choice in coming here! Port Arthur is famous as a 'Prison Town' because in the mid 19th century it had a population of 2,200, and 1,200 of those were convicts, most of whom had been transported from England.
