Australia Highseas

The sea off Tasmania's southeast coast lies beyond the Tasman Peninsula, where the Derwent estuary opens towards Storm Bay and the Southern Ocean. Rocky headlands and sheltered coves line this shore. Palawa and Pakana people fished these waters and gathered shellfish from the rocks for thousands of years. The penal station at Port Arthur, established in 1830 on the peninsula, looked out over the same water, and ships bound for Hobart passed along this coast.