In 1822, a desperate band of convicts fleeing a Tasmanian penal colony ended up resorting to cannibalism

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Alex Pearce has a song:

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I was going to post the song… But got beaten to it… There’s also https://www.abc.net.au/news/2008-11-21/pushed-to-the-edge-doco-reveals-tasmanias-cannibal/214416

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Didn’t Richard Flanagan write about this? This seems like the sort of thing he’d write about.

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As historians note, cannibalism was far more preferable than English food in the early 19th century.

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