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Tasmania 1822. Alexander Pearce from Co. Monaghan and seven other transported convicts made a bid for freedom from Sarah Island in Maquarie Harbour – considered the most notorious and brutal penal colony in the British Empire. Escaping through terrain that to this day remains unexplored, the men resorted to killing and eating their companions in order to survive. Forty nine days later only one man emerged from the wilderness – Alexander Pearce.