penal transportation

For other uses see Transport (disambiguation) or Transportation (disambiguation).Transportation or penal transportation is used to refer to the  deporting of convicted criminals to a penal colony, for example by France to Devil's Island and by the United Kingdom (then including Ireland) to its colonies in The Americas, from the 1620s to 1770s, and Australia between 1788 and 1868. It can also be used generally to describe such activities.
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