| Site Name | Batavia area (2), Archer River (1) This massacre is part of a group of massacres |
| Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander Place Name | |
| Language Group, Nation or People | Kaanju |
| 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 or Torres Strait Islander 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 Kaanju people at Cape York (Bottoms, 2013, p 124). |
| Sources | Vogan, 1890, p 137; Loos, 1982, p 61; Bottoms, 2013, p124. (Sources PDF) |
| Corroboration Rating | * |
Colonial Frontier Massacres
in Australia, 1788-1930
