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Tasmanian Aboriginal mythology also records in their oral history that the first men emigrated by land from a far-off country and the land was subsequently flooded – an echo of the Tasmanian people's migration from mainland Australia to (then) peninsular Tasmania, and the submergence of the land bridge after the last ice age.
The history of Tasmania begins at the end of the Last Glacial Period (approximately 12,000 years ago) when it is believed that the island was joined to the Australian mainland. Little is known of the human history of the island until the British colonisation of Tasmania in the 19th century.
Mathinna (c.1835 - 1852) Tasmanian Aboriginal girl who lived with Governor Franklin; Maulboyheenner (c.1816 - 1842) a Tasmanian Aboriginal resistance figure; Robert Hobart May (c.1801 - ?1832) massacre survivor and first Aboriginal Tasmanian to be baptised and live in British colonial society; Mokare (c.1800 - 1831) Noongar guide and peacemaker
Fanny Cochrane Smith (née Cochrane; December 1834 – 24 February 1905) was an Aboriginal Tasmanian considered to be the last fluent speaker of the Flinders Island lingua franca and thus the Tasmanian languages. [1] Her wax cylinder recordings of songs are the only audio recordings of any of Tasmania's indigenous languages.
Aboriginal resistance fighter and guide Maulboyheenner (c.1816 – 20 January 1842) was an Indigenous Australian resistance fighter and guide from north-eastern Tasmania . He was also known by several other names including Timme , Timmy , Bob and Malapuwinarana .
The British colonisation of Tasmania took place between 1803 and 1830. Known as Van Diemen's Land , the name changed to Tasmania , when the British government granted self-governance in 1856. [ 1 ] It was a colony from 1856 until 1901, at which time it joined five other colonies to form the Commonwealth of Australia .
"Aboriginal people of Macquarie Harbour". Tasmanian Parks. Archived from the original on 9 March 2011; Exon, N. F. (5 October 1997). "Geological framework of the South Tasman Rise, south of Tasmania, and its sedimentary basins". Journal of the Geological Society of Australia. 44 (5): 561 to 577. Bibcode:1997AuJES..44..561E.
Lanne was born into the Indigenous Tarkinener clan of remote north-western Tasmania around 1836. He probably belonged to the last Aboriginal family group which was living a traditional lifestyle on mainland Tasmania after the policies of the colonial British government had either killed or removed almost the entire remaining Aboriginal population.