Australian Convict Sites is a World Heritage property consisting of 11 remnant penal sites originally built within the British Empire during the 18th and 19th centuries on fertile Australian coastal strips at Sydney , Tasmania , Norfolk Island , and Fremantle ; now representing '' ... the best surviving examples of large-scale convict transportation and the colonial expansion of European powers through the presence and labor of convicts . ''
The Australian Convict Sites include places in Sydney , Tasmania , Norfolk Island , and Fremantle .