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Town in Tasmania, Australia
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Nubeena is a small coastal town of 481 on the Tasman Peninsula. It's the closest settlement to the world heritage-listed Coal Mines Historic Site.
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A world heritage-listed convict site, west of Port Arthur. While the entire peninsula south of Eaglehawk Neck was used as a prison for repeat offenders, the coal mines were for the egregious of the worst of the worst (yes, the disparity between social classes post-Industrial Revolution was so apparent to require a third-level repeat offenders prison.
Nubeena is a 12-minute drive west of Port Arthur via B37 (approx. 12 km). From Eaglehawk Neck, it is 26 km via the A9 between Eaglehawk Neck and Taranna and B37 west of Taranna.
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