Wybalenna Historic Site is on Flinders Island in northern Tasmania. The area was mainly a sealing ground in the early days, and it was not until the 1830s that settlement began with the remaining population of the Tasmanian Aboriginals being brought to live at Settlement Point.

Between 1831 and 1847, George Augustus Robinson attempted to establish an Aboriginal reserve at "Wybalenna" (meaning "Blackmans Houses") to achieve two separate goals. The intent was to firstly remove all aboriginals from mainland Tasmania, and to then try and 'civilise' them and therefore make them more acceptable to the white Tasmanian population.

The settlement was, however, doomed to failure, and a few years later it was abandoned. The Chapel in Wybalenna, owned by the National Trust, is the only remaining building that can be directly associated with the native Aboriginal people - all other traces of the past lie in ruins on the site.

Today, Wybalenna is an area of great historic significance to the descendants of the Aboriginal Tasmanians.

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