Tag: convicts

• Transported: every convict ship to Australia, mapped

  

  Britain shipped about 162,000 convicts to Australia. I mapped all 745 voyages in Wikipedia’s ship lists: the busiest port was Cork, the busiest year 1833, and the Second Fleet lost a quarter of its convicts at sea.

  Tristan Hotham

  Data stories, Games & other interests

  Australia, convicts, data visualisation, history, maps, maritime history, penal transportation, Wikipedia