penal colony

English

penal colony (plural penal colonies)

A colonial territory used (mainly) for the detention and forced labor of deportees, typically where free labor is desperately scarce.
Australia was used as a penal colony by the United Kingdom in the 18th to 19th century.

colonial territory

Catalan: colònia penal f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 流放地 (zh) (liúfàngdì)
Dutch: strafkolonie (nl), colonie pénale
Finnish: rangaistussiirtola, työsiirtola
German: Strafkolonie (de) f
Norwegian:
Bokmål: straffekoloni m

Nynorsk: straffekoloni m
Ottoman Turkish: پرانقه (pranka)
Russian: исправи́тельная коло́ния f (ispravítelʹnaja kolónija) (especially for young offenders), штрафна́я коло́ния f (štrafnája kolónija) (especially for military offenders)
Spanish: colonia penal f
Swedish: straffkoloni c
Turkish: ceza kolonisi

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