Best places: Historical landmarks in Southport, Australia

1836 lighthouse featuring an iron spiral staircase to the tower balcony & clifftop views of the sea.

This huge former convict settlement built in the 18th & 19th century is a popular historic landmark.

Built in 1870, this shot tower offers tours with scenic views from the top, plus an adjacent cafe.

👍👍 Port Arthur Historic Site is a special place of vivid history, cultural heritage and stories so compelling, you’ll want to hear them again and again. It’s a place of global significance – one of the 11 places that make up the UNESCO World Heritage-listed Australian Convict Sites. And it’s one of Aus...

Bustling dock with converted colonial buildings housing galleries, seafood restaurants & shops.

👍 Lovely, 'working' farm, preserved in time. Lots of buildings for exploring which were constructed and used during the convict era. Lots of farm animals for the kids to see and interact with.

👍👍 A novel pit stop back from Kingston Beach. We stopped for the antique 🎎 shop and found train carriage stores as well We enjoyed ice cream from the pancake carriage cafe.🍧 Loved the blossoms 🌸 We are so happy we stopped.

Seasonal dishes made from Tasmanian produce, plus local wine, in a homey setting with fireplaces.

Ruins of a coal mine where 1800s convicts worked & lived, with walks inside tunnels & prison cells.

Exhibits & dramatised tours on life at a 19th-century workhouse built to reform female convicts.

Tours & dining at a 19th-century manor house on a sprawling farm renowned for its rose garden.

👍👍 Two gorgeous trees on a pristine beach that were here on Cook's scouting voyage in 1777. The colour of the sand is stunning! A great place to stop, have a picnic, play in rockpools and enjoy Bruny.

👍👍 beautiful … i enjoyed the walk of Cataract Gotge from here and return. it was an easy walk as mentioned at the start.

👍👍 Wonderful 200 year old farmhouse surrounded by beautifully kept gardens. There are also several pheasants and ducks strutting their stuff and showing off their colourful tails. Scrumptious Devonshire teas with the best home made jam.

👍👍 Fantastic old house with an excellent collection of early Australian furniture. Not to be missed if you like Early Australian stuff

👍 We stopped here as part of a drive from Triabunna to Swansea. Definitely worth stopping of you are passing by as it is part of Tasmania's history. It was convict built in the 1840s and still stands as a testament to their hard work. No one knows why there are spikes. Was it a structural reason (str...

👍 Commemorating an important part of Port Arthur history. The entire peninsula of Port Arthur was a prison, with only an isthmus of a few hundred meters to keep convicts in. Hence, the dog line. The meanest dogs stationed every few meters. 🚘 Park in the signed car park ('Officers Quarters and Dog...

👍 Perfect place to shoot old sailing ships from. If only they had left the cannons behind. Also a pretty nice view.

👍👍 Nice stroll through some beautiful forest for 15 mins and there is the majestic Octopus tree.

👍👍 Nice place to have a picnic. Toilet is nearby. Parking is 1 min away. You can go to the Deadman lookout from here. Or go to any of the longer hikes. Good place to mountain bike as well.