Antarctica -- October-November 2010

Several exhibits illustrated the history of the prison and conditions in the prison. If I recall correctly, the prison dates from the 1890s (and closed -- with much of the land and some of the buildings to be converted to a navy base -- in the late 1940s).

I was surprised to see it looked like a US penitentiary. I would have thought that, in the 1890s, there would be little need for high security since, if someone escaped, there would be no place to go. (t's a very remote area.

(3 Dec 2010)