Oyster Cove, Tasmania: Difference between revisions

In 1840, the Oyster Bay Probation Station was built to house convicts, but it proved too expensive and was shut in 1847.<ref name="bonwick" />{{r|University of Tasmania – The Companion to Tasmanian History – Oyster Cove}}

 

After the destruction of [[Aboriginal Tasmanian]] society by British colonisation and the [[Black War]], the remaining 200 or so Indigenous survivors were rounded up and placed into forced exile at the [[Wybalenna Aboriginal Establishment]] on [[Flinders Island]]. In 1847, the Wybalenna facility was shut down and the remaining 47 Indigenous people were moved to Oyster Cove.{{r|University of Tasmania – The Companion to Tasmanian History – Wybalenna}}