Some Known Frontier Conflicts in Tasmania

Some main sources for information about conflicts in Tasmania and their locations in this list include publications such as: The Aboriginal Tasmanians, Lyndall Ryan, Allen & Unwin, 1996 The Australian Frontier Wars 1788–1838, John Connor, University of New South Wales Press, 2002 Baptised in Blood: the shocking secret history of Sorell, Wellington Bridge Press, north Hobart, Tasmania, 2010 Black War: the Extermination of the Tasmanian Aborigines, Clive Turnbull, FW Chesire, Sydney, 1948 The Black War: Fear, Sex and Resistance in Tasmania, Nicholas Clements, Queensland University Press, 2014 Fate of a Free People: the classic account of the Tasmanian Wars, Henry Reynolds, Penguin, 1995 and 2004 A History of Tasmania, Henry Reynolds, Cambridge University Press, 2012 The Killing at Risdon Cove, WF Refsahuge, Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2016 Tasmanian Aborigines–A history since 1803, Lyndall Ryan, Allen & Unwin, 2012 Van Diemen’s Land: An Aboriginal History, Murray Johnson and Ian McFarlane, New South Publishing, 2015 ‘Van Diemen’s Land, 1826–1831’ in The Australian Frontier Wars 1788–1838, John Connor, University of New South Wales Press, 2002, pp. 84–101 The Vandemonian War: The secret history of Britain’s Tasmanian invasion, Nick Brodie, Hardie Grant Books, 2017 For more references see the Bibliography, Books and Journal Articles. To see a map of conflicts that happened in Tasmania, please follow this link. All coordinates are approximate. This map is still being developed and may not fully reflect the places in the following list because of name changes and difficulty confirming some locations. Many thanks to readers who email information about colonial frontier conflict sites. Locations will be added to the list below as new information is found and time permits. If you know of incidents that occurred, but are not included in the list below and wish to contact the author of this website, please use the form on the Contact page. WARNING: Viewing this list may be offensive and upsetting to some readers as it contains placenames and sites where killings took place duing the frontier period in Tasmania.   © Compiled by Jane Morrison 2015, 2016