"A lot of good it'll do me if I spend them all in some penal colony!"

A few years ago this used to be a penal colony.

It's a road that still might lead straight to a penal colony, at least for me.

The island was used as a penal colony from 1765 until 1886.

At this time the main island was being used as a penal colony.

The penal colony would survive for another year or so.

"But it would be wrong of me to simply send you to a penal colony."

It was used as a French penal colony from 1854 to 1938.

In 1959 the island was turned into a penal colony.

The street is historical significant to the city's early development as a penal colony.