| Site Name | Moreton Island |
| Aboriginal Place Name | Ngugi |
| Language Group | 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 People |
| Victim Descriptions | |
| Victims Killed | 20 |
| Victims Killed Notes | Killed: M 20, F; Probable: M F; Possible: M F; Wounded: M F |
| Attackers | Colonists |
| Attacker Descriptions | Foot Soldier(s) |
| Attackers Killed | 0 |
| Attackers Killed Notes | Killed: M F; Wounded: M F |
| 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 | ** |
