Some Known Frontier Conflicts in Victoria

Some of the main sources for information about conflicts that happened in Victoria are included in such publications as: A Distant Field of Murder: Western District Frontiers 1834–1848, Jan Critchett, Melbourne University Press, 1990 Boodgery: First Contact in the Mid Murray 1820 to 1860, John Lay, Not So Shabby Books, 2016 Gippsland Massacres: the Destruction of the Kurnai Tribes, 1800–1860, Peter Gardner, Ngarak Press, Ensay, Victoria, 1993 The Good Country: The Djaja Wurrung, the Settlers and the Protectors, Bain Attwood, Monash University Publishing 2017 ‘The Liverpool Plains and Port Phillip Districts, 1838’ in John Connor, The Australian Frontier Wars 1788–1838, University of New South Wales Press, 2002, pp.102–122 Our Founding Murdering Father: Angus McMillan and the Kurnai Tribe of Gippsland 1839–1865, Peter Gardner, 1987 Scars in the Landscape: A Register of Massacre Sites in Western Victoria, 1803–1859, Ian D Clark, Aboriginal Studies Press, 1995 Thicker Than Water, Cal Flyn, Fourth Estsate, HarperCollinsPublishers, 2016 Through Foreign Eyes, Peter Gardner, CGS, Churchill, 1987 Who Killed the Koories? Michael Cannon, William Heinemann Australia, Melbourne, 1990 For more references see the Bibliography and Journal Articles. To see a map of some known conflicts that happened in Victoria, please follow this link. All coordinates are approximate. The map may not necessarily reflect all the places listed below but is updated when time permits. 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, 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: Some of the names of places included in the following list, derived from geographical names registers, historical and modern-day maps and other primary and secondary sources, are offensive and may be upsetting to some readers. These placenames reflect the attitudes, racism and activities of people who gave these places English names during the frontier period. © Jane Morrison 2015–2018. List compiled from the sources listed above, from the Bibliography and Journal Articles.