Cape Grim massacre

Quand

10 févr. 1828

Type

Massacre

Coordonnées

40.67° S, 144.69° E

Description

1828 massacre in Tasmania

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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