Convict labour landscapes, Port Arthur 1830-1877

The data contained in this webmap was generated by the Landscapes of Production and Punishment: the Tasman Peninsula 1830-77 project, funded by the Australian Research Council (DP170103642, 2017-19) with support from the project’s industry partner, the Port Arthur Historic Site Management Authority. This project examined the convict system from the perspective of convicts as workers, using the buildings, work sites, products and life outcomes to understand their lives and labours whilst under sentence. The project focused on the convict places of the Tasman Peninsula (Tasmania, Australia), in particular the former penal settlement of Port Arthur (1830-77). Today Port Arthur is a premier tourist destination in Australia, and is one of the 11 places inscribed on the World Heritage List as the Australian Convict Sites. This mapping will prove invaluable for those visiting or researching the historic site, showing them where buildings and other infrastructure were situated in the landscape at any point between 1830 and 1877. Historic plans from the Tasmanian Archives have also been georeferenced to a number of areas at the site, providing an extra layer of information. Hundreds of offences committed by the convicts whilst they were at Port Arthur have similarly been referenced to the landscape, providing information on both the time and place where offences occurred. The mapping and offence data was originally compiled by Dr Richard Tuffin within a geographic information system, with Esk Mapping & GIS creating the web-mapping interface.

本网页地图所载数据，源自《生产与惩戒景观：1830-1877年塔斯曼半岛》研究项目。该项目由澳大利亚研究委员会（Australian Research Council, DP170103642, 2017-2019）资助，并获得项目产业合作伙伴亚瑟港历史遗址管理局（Port Arthur Historic Site Management Authority）的支持。本项目以罪犯作为劳动者的独特视角审视澳大利亚流放惩戒体系，通过建筑遗存、作业场地、产出物及服刑人员的人生结局，探析其监禁期间的生活与劳作状态。项目研究聚焦澳大利亚塔斯马尼亚州塔斯曼半岛的流放惩戒相关场所，尤以1830年至1877年的前流放定居点亚瑟港为核心研究对象。如今，亚瑟港已是澳大利亚顶级旅游目的地，同时是列入《世界遗产名录》的澳大利亚流放惩戒遗址（Australian Convict Sites）系列遗产的11处组成点位之一。本网页地图将为到访该历史遗址或开展相关研究的人员提供极具价值的参考依据，清晰呈现1830年至1877年间该区域内各类建筑与基础设施的空间分布情况。塔斯马尼亚档案馆（Tasmanian Archives）所藏的历史测绘图件，亦已针对遗址内多处区域完成地理配准，进一步丰富了数据集的信息维度。此外，数百起罪犯在亚瑟港服刑期间所涉的违规行为记录，亦已关联至对应空间点位，可提供违规行为发生的时间与具体位置信息。本网页地图数据集与违规行为数据最初由理查德·塔芬博士（Dr Richard Tuffin）在地理信息系统（geographic information system, GIS）内编制完成，网页地图交互界面则由Esk Mapping & GIS团队开发。