"Van Diemen's Land" also known as "Henry the Poacher", "Young Henry's Downfall" or "Beware Young Men" is an English ballad about the punishment of transportation. Van Diemen's Land was the original name used by most Europeans for the island of Tasmania, part of Australia. The name was changed from Van Diemen's Land to Tasmania in 1856. From 1787 to the 1853 abolition of penal transportation (known simply as "transportation"), Van Diemen's Land was the primary penal colony in Australia. Following the suspension of transportation to New South Wales, all transported convicts were sent to Van Diemen's Land. In total, some 73,000 convicts were transported to Van Diemen's Land, or about 40% of all convicts sent to Australia. Male convicts served their sentences as assigned labor to free settlers or in gangs assigned to public works. Female convicts were assigned as servants in free settler households or sent to a female factory (women's workhouse prison). There were five female factories in Van Diemen's Land. Convicts completing their sentences or earning their ticket-of-leave often promptly left Van Diemen's Land. However, many settled in the new free colony of Victoria. The song was widely published in broadsides during the 19th century and was collected from traditional singers in England during the twentieth century. Another song dealing with penal transportation is "Botany Bay" which is also in this section. "Van Diemen's Land" has been recorded by many singers influenced by the British folk revival. It is a cautionary tale describing the fate of a man convicted of poaching and sentenced to transportation to the British penal colony in Van Diemen's Land, modern day Tasmania. It is included in the Roud Folk Song Index as #221 which lists 11 versions of this song collected from traditional singers from all over England: three versions were found in Norfolk, two in Hampshire and single versions were collected from Cumberland, Yorkshire, Lincolnshire, Worcestershire, Somerset and Sussex. It has been recorded by Louis Killen, Ewan McColl and Peggy Seeger, The Young Tradition and others.