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Penal colony   /pˈinəl kˈɑləni/   Listen
Penal colony

noun
1.
A penal institution where prisoners are exiled (often located on an island from which escape is difficult or impossible).





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... France is doing to spread the blessings of civilization in her distant dependencies we may turn with advantage to New Caledonia. With a view to attracting free settlers to that penal colony, M. Feillet, the Governor, forcibly expropriated the Kanaka cultivators from the best of their plantations, with a derisory compensation, in spite of the protests of the Council General of the island. Such immigrants as could be ...
— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain


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