What the records say
- When
- 27 Oct 1857
- Kind
- Massacre
- Deaths
- 12
- Coordinates
- 25.75° S, 149.40° E
- Description
- massacre in Australia
Hornet Bank massacre
1857 killing of eleven British colonists by Indigenous Australians
The Hornet Bank massacre was the killing of eleven British settlers, which included eight members of the Fraser family, by a group of mostly Yiman Indigenous Australians. The massacre occurred at about one or two o'clock in the morning of 27 October 1857 at Hornet Bank station on the upper Dawson River near Eurombah in central Queensland, Australia.
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