The story is: the Tasman Peninsula was settled by white-fellas in order to create a prison outpost. Punishment was meted out here to those who hadn't learned their lesson by banishment from England/Britain and who committed further offences in the colony of Tasmania - then known as Van Dieman's Land. The prison was established at Port Arthur (about 17 ams by road from this spot, and about 68 miles from Hobart. Port Arthur was placed on a peninsula which was itself attached to the bigger part of Tasmania by yet another neck of water. Most convicts couldn't swim and didn't know how to sail a boat - so this was effectively the end of the earth. (For some it is still the end of the earth (the arse), while others call it the 'arts end of the world'. Anyway, at Eaglehawk Neck, to prevent those enterprising prisoners who worked out where they were and how to get away, the neck of land joining the Tasman Peninsula with the Forestier Peninsula, was guarded by crews of soldiers, assisted by dogs. So here, to remember those times, is a bronze dog, looking suitably fierce.