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In 1973, the local Aboriginal residents, mostly descendants of the sealers' Indigenous wives who had remained in the area, established the Flinders Island Aboriginal Association. This association recognised the Wybalenna site, which contains Tasmania's largest known Aboriginal burial-ground, as holding great cultural and historical significance.
Woureddy, his wife Truganini and several other Aboriginal Tasmanians were chosen by Robinson as guides for these expeditions. [1] The island of exile was changed from Swan Island, firstly to Gun Carriage Island and then to the Wybalenna Aboriginal Establishment on Flinders Island as the number of Aborigines captured by Robinson increased. [7]
Portrait of Towterer by William Buelow Gould. Towterer (c.1800 – 30 September 1837) was a leading Aboriginal Tasmanian man of the Ninine clan from south-western Tasmania.He was part of the last group of Ninine to continue living a traditional lifestyle on the Tasmanian mainland before their forced transportation to the Wybalenna Aboriginal Establishment on Flinders Island in 1833.
Wybalenna Aboriginal Establishment on Flinders Island, off the north eastern tip of Tasmania Wybalenna Island , four small islands off the west coast of Flinders Island. Topics referred to by the same term
On 7 January 1832, Montpelliatta and the other Aboriginal people now attached to Robinson's party marched into Hobart, much to the curiosity of the residents. After meeting with Governor Arthur, they were all placed on board a ship ten days later and sent into forced exile on Flinders Island. [2]
Weep in silence: a history of the Flinders Island aboriginal settlement, with the Flinders Island journal of George Augustus Robinson, 1835–1839, Blubber Head Press, Hobart, 1987 (editor) Jorgen Jorgenson and the Aborigines of Van Diemen's Land : being a reconstruction of his "lost" book on their customs and habits, and on his role in the ...
Mathinna was born as Mary at the Wybalenna Aboriginal Establishment on Flinders Island around the year 1835. Her father was Towterer, an exiled leader of the Ninine tribe originally from south-west Tasmania, and her mother was Wongerneep.
The Flinders Island language is an extinct Australian Aboriginal language spoken on Flinders Island off the coast of Queensland, Australia. It is unconfirmed as a distinct language. The inhabitants of the island were the Aba Yalgayi. [2] There were 3 speakers reported in 1981. [3] One of the last known speakers of the language was Johnny ...