Site Name Lake Bolac
Aboriginal Place Name
Language Group Gai wurrung or Djabwurrung
Colony VDL
Present State/Territory VIC
Police District Portland
Latitude -37.71
Longitude 142.779
Date Between 1 Jan 1859 and 31 Dec 1859
Attack Time day
Victims Aboriginal People
Victims Killed 11
Victims Killed Notes Killed: M 11 F; Probable: M F; Possible: M F; Wounded: MF
Attackers Colonisers: Stockman/Drover
Attackers Killed 0
Attackers Killed Notes Killed: M F; Wounded: M F
Transport Foot
Motive Opportunity
Weapons Used Firearms
Narrative According to local historian, M. Green, this "clash" took place on D. M. Macnab's station where the colonists took refuge in a hut, which had loop holes through which they fired their guns. Eleven Aborigines including the "chief" were reported to have been shot. Green's source for this event was her late uncle, Harry Beardsley, whose parents worked on the station in 1859.
Sources Clark ID 1995: 83. (Sources PDF)
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