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Darlington - TAS

Darlington

Historic Site

Position

DEG: -42.581551 148.065201

DMS: 42º 34' 53.58" S 148º 03' 54.72" E

UTM: 55 G 5285102mN 587410mE

Altitude: 12.92m

Address & Contact

Frenchs Farm Coastal Route TAS 7190

Phone: 03 6257 1420

Email: N/A

Web: https://parks.tas.gov.au/explore-our-parks/maria-island-national-park

Information

Located on Maria Island, Darlington Probation Station was a convict penal settlement from 1825 to 1832, then later a convict probation station during the last phase of convict management in eastern Australia (1842–1850).

The site contains several relatively intact buildings and structures from this earlier era and of the 78 convict probation stations once built in Tasmania, the buildings and structures at Maria Island are regarded as the most outstanding representative example.

Maria Island was an ideal location for a probation station as it was away from the free population and had natural resources for the convicts to labour on. As well as this, its island location made prisoner escapes difficult. At its peak, the number of convicts totalled 492.

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Weather

Closest Weather Station

Maria Island at 16/03:00pm EST

Distance from Darlington 9.75km SW

Temperature	Feels Like	Rel. Humidity	Dew Point	Pressure	Rainfall	Wind Direction	Wind Speed	Gusts
13.9°C	3.0°C	57%	5.5°C	1010.2hPa	0.0mm	NNW	52km/hr 28knots	59km/hr 32knots

Closest Climatic Station

Orford (Aubin Court)

Distance from Darlington 15.89km W

	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Mean Max. °C	22.0	21.9	20.6	18.4	15.7	13.3	13.0	14.0	15.7	17.3	18.7	20.4
Mean Min. °C	11.8	12.0	10.7	8.4	6.2	4.1	3.5	4.2	5.6	7.2	9.1	10.5
Mean Rain mm	48.5	45.5	46.1	57.6	58.0	53.0	56.5	62.1	51.6	59.7	64.9	63.4