Paredarermean

The Paredarermean were the Paredarerme, the Oyster Bay people of Tasmania's central eastern coast. Inland the Big River people spoke a closely kindred dialect. Colonists recorded the Paredarerme's Eastern Tasmanian tongue, leaving one of the fullest island word lists. They gathered shellfish and hunted seals, muttonbirds and kangaroos.

Before the sealers came, the Oyster Bay and Big River districts may have held as many as two thousand people. Seal and whale hunters raided their camps from the late 1810s, killing men and carrying off women; settlers took their land from 1823.

By 1828 Tongerlongeter's survivors had joined the Big River band, and Governor Arthur answered their raids with martial law and the Black Line sweep of 1830. Robinson's missions secured their surrender and exile to Wybalenna, where Tongerlongeter, named King William, died in June 1837, on the day William IV died.