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Cape Barren Island, officially truwana / Cape Barren Island, [5] is a 478-square-kilometre (185 sq mi) island in Bass Strait, off the north-east coast of Tasmania, Australia. It is the second-largest island of the Furneaux Group , with the larger Flinders Island to the north, and the smaller Clarke Island to the south.
The Cape Barren Island Reserve Act 1912 made the Secretary for Lands, "charged with the duty of promoting the welfare and well-being of the residents of the Reserve, and of carrying out the provisions of this Act." [294] This reserve was understood to be where all Tasmanians of Aboriginal ancestry lived.
Tasmanian Aboriginal material in ... Robinson 1829–1834, Tasmanian Historical Research Association, ... Strait and the Cape Barren Island community ...
Jawoyn Association Aboriginal Corporation [36] [37] ... Cape Barren Island: 2015: Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre [87] [88] Victoria. Group Location Associated Language Group
He is a third-generation Cape Barren Islander, descended from the unions of Bass Strait sealers and Aboriginal women, including Watanimarina and Thomas Beeton (parents of Lucy Beeton) and Black Judy and Edward Mansell. [2] Mansell's parents grew up on the Cape Barren Island reserve and moved to Launceston after World War II for employment ...
Mount Munro is, at 715 metres, the highest point on Cape Barren Island in Bass Strait, Tasmania, Australia It was probably named after James Munro (c1779-1845), a former convict who had been a sealer and beachcomber in Bass Strait from the early 1820s and lived for more than twenty years on nearby Preservation Island, where he had several "wives" [clarification needed].
In May 1938, the two men and their wives visited Cummeragunja Aboriginal reserve in New South Wales. [10] A later study looking at their 1939 expedition to the Cape Barren Island Aboriginal reserve said that this contributed to their decision to advocate assimilation ("absorption") as a solution to "the half-caste problem". [11]
Lola Greeno (born Lola Sainty, 27 May 1946 on Cape Barren Island) is an artist, curator and arts worker of Aboriginal descent. [1] She studied a Bachelor of Fine Arts at the University of Tasmania in Launceston, finishing her degree in 1997.