The food is anything but prison rations at this swish restaurant inside the main visitor centre at the Port Arthur Historic Site. Looking through slit windows to the penitentiary (which is lit at night) and serving the likes of Cape Grim beef and a lasagne of Cygnet mushrooms,1830 is as slick and dark as a city wine bar.

It's open for drinks from 4pm.


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1. Port Arthur Historic Site

0.02 MILES

This amazing World Heritage–listed convict site is one of Tasmania’s big-ticket attractions. The dozens of structures here are best understood via guided…

2. Memorial Garden

0.05 MILES

The shell of the Broad Arrow Café at the Port Arthur Historic Site, where 20 people were killed in the 1996 shootings, has been preserved as a memorial…

3. Church

0.12 MILES

Historic building within the Port Arthur Historic Site, built in 1836 and burned down in 1884. The decorative carvings were done by boys from the Point…

4. Penitentiary

0.14 MILES

The old penitentiary at the Port Arthur Historic Site was originally a granary and flour mill.

5. Scorpion Rock

0.22 MILES

A terrific vantage point within the Port Arthur Historic Site, a short stroll uphill behind the ruins. Site admission charges apply. For a cheeky view…

6. Separate Prison

0.22 MILES

The feared Separate Prison at the Port Arthur Historic Site was built to punish prisoners through 23-hours-a-day isolation and sensory deprivation.

7. Stewarts Beach

0.64 MILES

Safe-swimming beach not far from the Port Arthur Historic Site.

8. Remarkable Cave

2.89 MILES

About 7km south of Port Arthur is Remarkable Cave, a long tunnel eroded from the base of a collapsed gully, under a cliff and out to sea. The waves surge…