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Australia's Majority Killings Map


In 2017 the University of Newcastle inwards Commonwealth of Australia released an interactive map of Colonial Frontier Massacres inwards Central together with Eastern Commonwealth of Australia 1788-1930. The map is utilisation of the university's efforts to tape together with document the massacres of native Australians inwards Commonwealth of Australia betwixt the years 1788-1930. For illustration the map records that on the 1st May 1838 at Slaughterhouse Creek 15 heavily armed stockmen attacked together with killed 300 Kamilaroi aboriginals. The massacre occurred simply 4 months afterwards fifty Kamilaroi people were killed past times constabulary at nearby Waterloo Creek.

The Guardian has at 1 time released its ain map of frontier massacres inwards Australia. The Guardian's The Killing Times covers the same catamenia of Australia's early on colonial history. The map plots the locations of volume killings using the University of Newcastle's information amongst information that the Guardian collected itself, using the university's methodology, of volume killings inwards Western Australia.

The Guardian's map includes a timeline which allows you lot to filter the massacres shown on the map past times engagement range. You tin likewise filter the map past times the publish of victims together with past times perpetrator groups. If you lot click on a mark on the map you lot tin read details virtually the selected volume killing beneath the map.