Kidnapped, a sealers slave and paramour, she saved some of her captors in a shipwreck. Her memorial at Bicheno is the only known gravestone erected to a Tasmanian aboriginal person during the 19th century, and she is the only Palawa woman known to have been buried and commemorated by non-indigenous locals.


Hidden women of history: Wauba Debar, an Indigenous swimmer from Tasmania who saved her captors