penal colony

English

Noun

penal colony (plural penal colonies)

1. 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.

Translations

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 (sv) c
• Turkish: ceza kolonisi