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Created page with "I see that there has been a Redirect from "Penal Colony" to Gulag. :Why? They're two separate things. The gulags were prison settlements ''within Russia''. they we..."
I see that there has been a Redirect from "Penal Colony" to [[Gulag]].
:Why? They're two separate things. The gulags were prison settlements ''within Russia''. they were not colonies.
:If you want "penal colonies", come Down Under. We have a range of them. Sydney ([[Port Jackson]]) was founded '''purely''' as a convict settlement in 1788. It was followed by Hobart in 1804, then Launceston - both in Tasmania - then Brisbane in 1824. I think that by 1825 Norfolk Island had been tried as a prison twice. The first major non-convict colony in Australia was [[Adelaide]] in 1836.
::Can we please have "Penal Colony" released from the strictures of "Gulag" please? [[User:AlanE|AlanE]] ([[User talk:AlanE|talk]]) 21:18, 6 November 2016 (EST)
:Why? They're two separate things. The gulags were prison settlements ''within Russia''. they were not colonies.
:If you want "penal colonies", come Down Under. We have a range of them. Sydney ([[Port Jackson]]) was founded '''purely''' as a convict settlement in 1788. It was followed by Hobart in 1804, then Launceston - both in Tasmania - then Brisbane in 1824. I think that by 1825 Norfolk Island had been tried as a prison twice. The first major non-convict colony in Australia was [[Adelaide]] in 1836.
::Can we please have "Penal Colony" released from the strictures of "Gulag" please? [[User:AlanE|AlanE]] ([[User talk:AlanE|talk]]) 21:18, 6 November 2016 (EST)