Site Name | Callandoon Station, MacIntyre River |
Aboriginal Place Name | |
Language Group | Gungabula |
Present State/Territory | QLD |
Colony/State/Territory at the time | NSW |
Police District | Warialda |
Latitude | -28.525 |
Longitude | 150.152 |
Date | Between 1 Oct 1847 and 5 Oct 1847 |
Attack Time | Day |
Victims | Aboriginal People |
Victim Descriptions | Aboriginal |
Victims Killed | 47 |
Victims Killed Notes | Killed: M 12, F; Probable: M F; Possible: M F; Wounded: M F |
Attackers | Colonists |
Attacker Descriptions | Native Police, Settler(s), Stockmen/Drover(s) |
Attackers Killed | 0 |
Attackers Killed Notes | Killed: M F; Wounded: M F |
Transport | Horse |
Motive | Reprisal |
Weapons Used | Firearm(s), Musket(s), Carbine(s) |
Narrative | Following the massacre of forty Aboriginal people at Boonall Station by squatter James Mark in retaliation for Aboriginal people killing his son, he continued his revenge rampage with native police from Warialda and shot 47 Aboriginal people at Callandoon station. |
Sources | Tonge, nd, pp 22-24; Copland, 2001, p 85; Richards, 2008, pp 65-66; SMH October 15, 1847http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12901587. (Sources PDF) |
Corroboration Rating | ** |