Crossing Eaglehawk Neck on the Arthur Highway a simple affair today, but exiting the Tasman Peninsula was not always so easy.
This summer thousands of tourists, residents and visitors will cross Eaglehawk Neck in southern Tasmania without much thought.Savage dogs chained up in a line guarded against prisoners escaping from Port Arthur in the 1800s
From the 1830s the remote Tasman Peninsula was under military rule, and home to a tough prison for Britain's most hardened criminals.
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