History in Australia

Once an arrival port for post-war migrants, this pier is now a forest of pylons in the bay and a popular spot for fishing and a backdrop for wedding photos

Three women and a 10-year-old boy are immortalized in this sculpture memorializing the 13,000 women and children convicts sent to Van Diemen’s Land (now Tasmania) between 1803 and 1853.

This remote outpost hosts the remains of one of Australia's key sites in the history of convicted laborers.

This site contains preserved ruins and industrial remnants of Western Australia's mining heritage.

This once-thriving coastal area is now a preserved ghost town.

The oldest operating picture gardens in the world.

This remote historic museum tells the story of the early telecommunications systems in 1800s Australia.

Spectacular rock formations host dinosaur footprints and an old hydrotherapy pool.

Kakadu National Park is known for its stunning beauty and its rock art, which represents the longest historical records of any continuous civilization on Earth.

This small museum celebrates the history of an Australian town known as the "Gateway to the Goldfields."

A monument commemorating the antimony mine that once operated in this Melbourne suburb.

The last of the bushrangers in New South Wales.

A 19th-century baker stands ready to serve customers.

Commemorating the 19th-century labor movement in Australia.

Australia's oldest artists' colony.

The sullen remains of vessels abandoned in the Port Adelaide River.