| Site Name | Kidman Knob |
| Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander Place Name | |
| Language Group, Nation or People | Ngarinman, Bilinara |
| Present State/Territory | NT |
| Colony/State/Territory at the time | SA |
| Police District | Timber Creek |
| Latitude | -16.117 |
| Longitude | 130.96 |
| Date | Between 1 Jan 1911 and 30 Jun 1914 |
| Attack Time | Morning |
| Victims | Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander People |
| Victim Descriptions | Aboriginal |
| Victims Killed | 30 |
| Victims Killed Notes | People engaged in ceremony. |
| Attackers | Colonists |
| Attacker Descriptions | Pastoralist(s) |
| Attackers Killed | 0 |
| Attackers Killed Notes | |
| Transport | Horse |
| Motive | Opportunity |
| Weapons Used | Firearm(s) |
| Narrative | In his report on the Kidman Springs/Jasper Gorge Land Claim, Justice Howard Olney (1989, pp 18-19), based on Aboriginal evidence, was told that during Townsend's time as manager of Victoria River Downs station, a massacre of Aboriginal people took place at Kidman's Knob. 'While evidence of these and other massacres is only rarely obtainable in European documents, the oral traditions are fully borne out by current demography.'
The stockmen concerned spared the lives of young women who they abducted (Rose & Lewis, 1982, p 2). |
| Sources | Olney H, 1989, pp 18-19; Rose, D & Lewis, D, 1982, pp 1-3; Lewis, 2021, pp 487, 495-496 and 558. (Sources PDF) |
| Corroboration Rating | ** |
