The important Australian heritage area of Port Arthur is a small town on the Tasman Peninsula, set around 60kms from the state's capital, Hobart. Its open-air museum is the island's top visitor attraction and the town is infamous for its hellhole penal colony for the 19th century hard-line British and Irish convicted criminals sent for transportation as their punishment. The site of the prison colony, abandoned in 1977, is now a major tourist attraction for its numerous buildings and its night time Port Arthur Ghost Tour. The little town is just along the bay from the old prison site, with Port Arthur City Centre hotels ready and willing to extend a welcome to visitors staying overnight after touring the prison. As if replaying history, the little town was the venue for the worst mass murder by a single man in Australia's post-convict history, when Martin Bryant killed 35 and injured 21 residents in 1996. Visitors are asked not to mention the massacre when chatting with townspeople.

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