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.
George Augustus Robinson was an English-born builder and self-trained preacher who was employed by the British colonial authorities to conciliate the Indigenous Australians of Van Diemen's Land and th
Robinson in 1853
Robinson with Tasmanian Aborigines
1835 painting by Thomas Bock of Robinson's guide Truganini