The Northern Territory of Australia was officially part of colonial New South Wales from 1825 to 1863 and was briefly called the Colony of North Australia from February to December 1846. The Northern Territory was officially part of the colony of South Australia from 1863 to 1 January 1911 when it separated from South Australia. ‘Central Australia’ is the region in the southern part of the Northern Territory. The list below includes locations of conflicts that took place geographically in the area that we know today as the Northern Territory, although, apart from the incident at Attack Creek in 1860, up to 1 January 1911 the locations were officially in the Northern Territory of the colony of South Australia, except for places that were officially located in the colony of Queensland from 12 April 1862, like Annandale Station, the vicinity of which was the site of a massacre of Aboriginal people in 1879. Additional locations and summaries of conflicts is being added to this list as new information is found. Some of the main sources for information about conflicts that happened in the Northern Territory are included in such hard copy and online publications as: The Black War in Arnhem Land: Missionaries and the Yolgnu 1908–1940, Mickey Dewar, The Australian National University, North Australia Research Unit, reprinted in 1995, available at: https://openresearch-repository.anu.edu.au/bitstream/1885/49270/1/TheblackWarinArnhemLand2.pdf Coniston Massacre, National Museum of Australia at: https://www.nma.gov.au/exhibitions/first_australians/resistance/coniston_massacre, accessed on 29 August 2016 Frontier Justice: A History of the Gulf Country to 1900, Tony Roberts, University of Queensland Press, 2005 In the Name of the Law: William Willshire and the Policing of the Australian Frontier, Amanda Nettelbeck and Robert Foster, Wakefield Press, Kent Town, South Australia, 2007 Mataranka and the Daly, Two Studies in the History of Settlement in the Northern Territory, Jane Gleeson and Michaela Richards, Australian National University, North Australia Research Unit Monograph, Darwin, 1985, available at: https://openresearch-repository.anu.edu.au/bitstream/1885/49390/3/MatarankaandtheDaly,TwoStudiesintheHistoryofSettle2.pdf ‘Northern and Western Australia’ in The Australian Frontier Wars 1788–1838, John Connor, University of New South Wales Press, 2002, pp. 68–83 Remembering the Coniston Massacre, Teresa McCarthy, Northern Territory Library Anmatyerr community history project, 2008 at: https://www.territorystories.nt.gov.au/bitstream/handle/10070/213508/Remembering_the_Coniston_Massacre.pdf?sequence=1 A Wild History: Life and Death … Continue reading Some Known Frontier Conflicts in the Northern Territory