| Site Name | Selwyn Ranges |
| Aboriginal Place Name | |
| Language Group | Kalkadoons |
| Colony | QLD |
| Present State/Territory | QLD |
| Police District | |
| Latitude | -21.582 |
| Longitude | 140.584 |
| Date | Between 1 Jan 1879 and 31 Jan 1879 |
| Attack Time | day |
| Victims | Aboriginal People |
| Victims Killed | 100 |
| Victims Killed Notes | |
| Attackers | Colonisers: Native Police, Settler |
| Attackers Killed | 4 |
| Attackers Killed Notes | |
| Transport | Foot |
| Motive | Reprisal |
| Weapons Used | Firearms, carbines |
| Narrative | Sub-Inspector Ernest Eglington led a detachment of native police, as well as settler Alexander Kennedy and other 'whites from surrounding stations' in the killing of an unknown number of Kalkadoon people at the Selwyn Ranges, in reprisal for the killing of Bernard Movo and 3 others at Woonamo in Dec, 1878. |
| Sources | Armstrong 1981:127-8; Bottoms 2013: 162-3; Davidson et.al, 2004:16. (Sources PDF) |
| Corroboration Rating | *** |
