Site Name | Moreton Island |
Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander Place Name | Ngugi |
Language Group, Nation or People | Guwar |
Present State/Territory | QLD |
Colony/State/Territory at the time | NSW |
Police District | Brisbane |
Latitude | -27.36 |
Longitude | 153.426 |
Date | 1 Jul 1831 |
Attack Time | Dawn |
Victims | Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander People |
Victim Descriptions | |
Victims Killed | 20 |
Victims Killed Notes | |
Attackers | Colonists |
Attacker Descriptions | Foot Soldier(s) |
Attackers Killed | 0 |
Attackers Killed Notes | |
Transport | Foot |
Motive | Opportunity |
Weapons Used | Firearm(s), Musket(s) |
Narrative | At dawn, on the edge of the freshwater lagoon close to Moreton island's southern extremity, Captain Clunie, with a detachment of the 17th Regiment, surrounded a Ngugi camp and killed up to twenty people. George Watkins recorded: 'nearly all were shot down. My informant, a young boy at the time, escaped with a few others by hiding in a clump of bushes' (Watkins, 1892, p 43). |
Sources | Evans, 1999, p 65; Watkins, 1892, p 43. (Sources PDF) |
Corroboration Rating | ** |