Comments by "Jennifer Harrison" (@jenniferharrison8915) on "The Disturbing Escape From Australia's Worst Prison" video.

  1. Focus on the positives, it's history is still living - its fertile, healthy, pristine, safe, friendly, and has the best food and marine research in the world!
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  2. My father took my son there on a cruise, it is still eirie even though it's abandoned, Hell's Gate looks like the point of no return! 😱
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  3. A couple of miles? Easy? My great grandmother travelled 10+ hrs to Hobart from Zeehan to go to uni! It's all rugged and mountainous!
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  4. The natives practiced cannibalism as a basis of revenge on other tribes - the same as New Guinea tribes - it was a common survival habit too!
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  5. My convict ancestor spent 15hr days at Macquarie Harbour cutting timber in chains, they only had tents as shelter and rarely had proper food! That timber was Australia's first export industry!
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  6. No, my great great grandfather tried to escape on a whaling boat to get to the Goldfields in Victoria, he didn't make it!
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  7. In the booming mining days, my great grandmother lived in Zeehan, still wild but very prosperous! One of her sisters moved with her family further north to Tarkine following the copper mining, the area was rife with typhoid due to contaminated water and the only shelter was small huts! Many of the wives and children did not survive! The eldest daughter aged 14 left behind published writings and photographs of the life!
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  8. It's called the Wilderness or Wild West! 😄
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  9. My great grandmother was born in Zeehan, and went to University in Hobart, the trip took approx 10 hours, she earned an MSc and then moved to Melbourne, but came back to help family! She lived a long and healthy life, and had learned endurance! 😰👍
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