| Site Name | Archer River (1), Batavia area (Wenlock) This massacre is part of a group of massacres |
| Aboriginal Place Name | |
| Language Group | Kaanjui |
| Present State/Territory | QLD |
| Colony/State/Territory at the time | QLD |
| Police District | Cook town |
| Latitude | -13.159 |
| Longitude | 142.96 |
| Date | Between 2 Jun 1889 and 14 Jun 1889 |
| Attack Time | Day |
| Victims | Aboriginal People |
| Victim Descriptions | Aboriginal |
| Victims Killed | 20 |
| Victims Killed Notes | Men, Women and Children |
| Attackers | Colonists |
| Attacker Descriptions | Native Police, Settler(s), Stockmen/Drover(s) |
| Attackers Killed | 0 |
| Attackers Killed Notes | |
| Transport | Horse |
| Motive | Reprisal |
| Weapons Used | Snider(s) |
| Narrative | In June 1889, Sub-Inspector Frederick Urquhart commanded a group of 40 armed men on horseback, comprising three detachments of native police, as well as settlers and stockmen, in a two week campaign of dispersal of the Kaanjui people at Cape York. Archer River (1) is the third of five massacres of the Kaanjui people. It is estimated that about 20 Kaanui were killed at each campsite. |
| Sources | Vogan, 1890, p 137; Loos, 1982, p 61; Bottoms, 2013, p124. (Sources PDF) |
| Corroboration Rating | ** |
Colonial Frontier Massacres
in Australia, 1788-1930
