What the records say
- When
- 10 Feb 1828
- Kind
- Massacre
- Coordinates
- 40.67° S, 144.69° E
- Description
- 1828 massacre in Tasmania
Cape Grim massacre
Massacre in Tasmania (1828)
The Cape Grim massacre was an attack on 10 February 1828 in which a group of Aboriginal Tasmanians gathering food at a beach in the north-west of Tasmania is said to have been ambushed and shot by four Van Diemen's Land Company (VDLC) workers, with bodies of some of the victims then thrown from a 60-metre (200 ft) cliff.
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- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Black War: Cape Grim massacre – About 30 Aboriginal Tasmanians gathering food at a beach are probably ambushed, shot with muskets and killed by four indentured…”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page