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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.
Tasmania was inhabited by an Indigenous population, the Aboriginal Tasmanians, and evidence indicates their presence in the territory, later to become an island, at least 35,000 years ago. [ citation needed ] At the time of the British occupation and colonisation in 1803 the Indigenous population was estimated at between 3000 and 10,000.
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
1817: charts the Lachlan River. 1818: charts the Macquarie River. Charles Sturt. 1828: charts the Darling River. 1830: arrives at Goolwa, having charted the Murray River. John McDouall Stuart. 1860: reaches the centre of the continent. 1862: reaches Port Darwin, founding a settlement there. Burke and Wills. 1861: The ill-fated expedition occurs.
Tasmanian Aboriginal material in collections in Europe, 1961 French manuscripts referring to the Tasmanian aborigines: a preliminary report, Museum Committee, Launceston City Council, 1966 (editor) Friendly mission: The Tasmanian Journals and Papers of George Augustus Robinson 1829–1834, Tasmanian Historical Research Association, Hobart, 1966
On 3 May 1804, a number of Aboriginal Tasmanians were killed by guards of the fledgling British settlement at Risdon Cove, Van Diemen's Land. The events occurred in mysterious circumstances, perhaps as the result of a misunderstanding. [ 1 ]
The Toogee were an Aboriginal Tasmanian people who lived in Western Tasmania, Australia, before European settlement.Their Toogee people included Macquarie Harbour. [1]The Toogee consisted of two different bands, the Lowreenne and Mimegin. [2]
The modern history of the Australian city of Hobart (formerly 'Hobart Town', or 'Hobarton') in Tasmania dates to its foundation as a British colony in 1804. Prior to British settlement, the area had been occupied definitively by the semi-nomadic Mouheneener tribe, a sub-group of the Nuenonne, or South-East tribe. [1]