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The Wybalenna Aboriginal Establishment was an internment facility built at Flinders Island by the colonial British government of Van Diemen's Land to accommodate forcibly exiled Aboriginal Tasmanians (Palawa). It was opened in 1833 and ceased operations in 1847.
Wybalenna Island comprises four round granite islands with a combined area of about 16 ha, in south-eastern Australia. It is part of Tasmania’s Prime Seal Island Group, lying in eastern Bass Strait west of Flinders in the Furneaux Group. The island is a conservation area. [1]
Wybalenna is translated as "dwellings" or more colloquially "Black Man's Houses" from the language of the Ben Lomond people. These ~180 survivors were deemed to be safe from white settlers here, but conditions were poor with around 130 Aboriginal people dying at Wybalenna alone. This forced relocation scheme was therefore short-lived. [7]
Wybalenna may refer to: Wybalenna Aboriginal Establishment on Flinders Island, off the north eastern tip of Tasmania; Wybalenna Island, four small islands off the ...
At the Wybalenna facility, he was no longer called "Friday", but was given the name of Walter George Arthur, after the Lieutenant Governor of Van Diemen's Land, Sir George Arthur. He was one of the most educated (in a European sense) Aborigines at Wybalenna and taught reading and writing in English to the other inmates.
Lanne was born in 1835 into what was thought to be the last Aboriginal family still living on the mainland of Tasmania before being removed to Wybalenna where Aboriginal people were taken to be ...
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.
Wybalenna Aboriginal Establishment. In September 1835, with the completion of the removal of Aborigines from mainland Tasmania, Robinson was appointed as their superintendent at the internment facility known as the Wybalenna Aboriginal Establishment on Flinders Island. [9] Robinson began a program of Christianising the inmates.