What the records say
- When
- 1839
- Kind
- Massacre
- Coordinates
- 38.25° S, 142.97° E
- Description
- massacre in Victoria, Australia
Murdering Gully massacre
Massacre in Victoria, Australia
Murdering Gully, formerly known as Puuroyup to the Djargurd Wurrung people, is the site of an 1839 massacre of 35–40 people of the Tarnbeere Gundidj clan of the Djargurd Wurrung in the Camperdown district of Victoria, Australia. It is a gully on Mount Emu Creek, where a small stream adjoins from Merida Station.
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- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Undated (mid 1939) – 35 to 40 Aboriginals of the Tarnbeere Gundidj clan of the Djargurd Wurrung are killed in the Murdering Gully massacre”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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