| Site Name | Battle Creek, Cloncurry |
| Aboriginal Place Name | |
| Language Group | Kalkadoon |
| Present State/Territory | QLD |
| Colony/State/Territory at the time | QLD |
| Police District | Cloncurry |
| Latitude | -19.95 |
| Longitude | 139.192 |
| Date | Between 1 Jan 1884 and 31 Dec 1884 |
| Attack Time | |
| Victims | Aboriginal People |
| Victim Descriptions | Aboriginal |
| Victims Killed | 18 |
| Victims Killed Notes | graves of 18 Aboriginal people located |
| Attackers | Colonists |
| Attacker Descriptions | Native Police, Settler(s) |
| Attackers Killed | 0 |
| Attackers Killed Notes | |
| Transport | Horse |
| Motive | Reprisal |
| Weapons Used | Snider(s), Hatchet(s) |
| Narrative | Following the Kalkadoon killing of James Powell, co-owner of Calton Hills station, at Mistake Creek, north of Cloncurry, in 1884, a detachment of seven native police under the command of Sub-Inspector Frederick Urquhart and assisted by Alexander Kennedy, co-owner of Calton Hills station, went in search of the alleged killers. They trapped a group in a gorge on Battle Creek on Calton Hills station and shot and killed at least 18 of them. It is not known whether they were men or included women and children (Bottoms, 2013, pp 164-165). Following heavy rains in 2007, and surveys for a new road to a mining site between 2008 and 2010, the graves of 18 Kalkadoons were identified in the gorge. The road now takes a different route. |
| Sources | Fysh, 1961, pp 143-145; Agee, 2011; Bottoms, 2013, pp 164-165. (Sources PDF) |
| Corroboration Rating | ** |
