TLCMap Gazetteer of Historical Australian Places

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Name	Miscellaneous Places of Interest
Description	Miscellaneous places that aren't part of a general dataset, but worth putting on the map.
Type	Other
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Contributor	Dr Bill Pascoe
Entries	22
Allow ANPS?	No
Added to System	2021-07-10 16:27:38
Updated in System	2025-10-25 12:14:22

Subject	history, miscellanea
Creator	Bill Pascoe
Publisher	Bill Pascoe
Contact	bill.pascoe@newcastle.edu.au
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Murder of Burigon

Type: Other

Details

Latitude

-32.9299

Longitude

151.78

Start Date

1820-10-27

End Date

1820-10-27

State

NSW

LGA

NEWCASTLE

Description

https://hunterlivinghistories.com/2016/02/09/burigon/ I suggest the location is around the end of the alley called 'Marine View', or the corner of Tyrell and Wolfe St, or the grounds of the Grammar School. The sketch map is ambiguous and tricky to interpret. Firstly, here is a reading I think to be wrong, and then why, and then an explanation that makes everything more coherent, as a way to explain why I think it's the right one: It looks like Elliot & Constable are coming from the crest of the hill towards the church, 150 yards away (~137m), with the path to the Farm/Town* on their right, and Kirby killing Burigon at about 50 yards (~45m), on the other side of the path to their approach and the hill. The James Meehan 1818 map, has a road leading directly from the front of the church to the market garden. If the murder was 50 yards from the church (which is in the same spot as the current cathedral), on the other side of the path to the Hill, the site would be around the corner of Newcomen and Church St, a block up from the Grand Hotel. But that is likely wrong because it contradicts other information. The police account (SRNSW: SZ 792 COD452B Court of Criminal Jurisdiction Case Papers Nov/Dec 1820 Part II pp. 496-519 Map page 507) indicates the action took place 'behind the church'. This could be literally at the rear of the church, facing East, but none of the other maps, paintings or accounts match with this. This most likely means more generally 'behind' relative to the settlement, and in a painting of the church overlooking the settlement, it is seen to face the settlement, so it would also be to the rear of the church though at more of an angle to the side (as you would say in the settlement 'up behind the church on the hill' rather than literally, if you stepped out the Church's back door). They met the Aboriginal people bringing in the escaped convicts from the bush. This accords with somewhere further up the hill or over it facing West. The accounts mention an Aboriginal camp, with the Burigon and others bringing the captive convicts from that direction. This is most likely at the top of the hill or nearby, as it accords with all the other information and is evidenced, in the W. Preston painting of early Newcastle Aboriginal people showing camps directly on top of The Hill: https://governmenthousebarracks1804.wordpress.com/about/ (it might seem strange to have a camp high on an exposed hill, and also that the most convenient path to 'the bush' was up a steep hill, but at that time, the suburbs inland from the high ground around Cooks Hill were marshes, and there was no fresh water, so people would have stuck to the river and the high ground near the beaches.) The pathway drawn is then perhaps not the *road* depicted in the map leading straight from the front of the church to the garden, or town, nor the ring road, but another well worn *path*. It's reasonable to think there was a more establish road to the church, due to the high traffic expected on Sundays and people wanting to ride horse or buggy to it, since it's so steep. A path not shown on the map is one of the most prominent features in the Lycett painting of Newcastle, https://livinghistories.newcastle.edu.au/nodes/view/11518 thought by some to depict Wallis, a convict and Burigon himself (in about the exact location he was murdered - if painted after the murder it might have been a poetic gesture, but the painting is dated 1818, and the murder was 1820), and leads towards the farms near Newcastle beach. This path matches the alignment in the sketchmap of the path leading towards the Farm, between the Church and the crest of The Hill. So the most likely point is further up The Hill from the church. But it doesn't make sense that the search party approached from the top of the hill which seems to be what is shown in the diagram, because the narrative describes them coming from the settlement and going behind the church to see the Aboriginal people and convicts approach from the bush. It doesn't make sense that they would somehow end up getting in behind the convicts and Aboriginal people. Cartography is a discipline and people have to learn to draw maps accurately showing everything from above, and some smart people still struggle with that at school. Naively drawn maps, often mix up angles of view, icons, and drawings of things from the side - just as the church is drawn side on, and possibly back to front (this is still a bit troubling, but nothing at all makes sense if it is understood as a literal drawing, so it's probably just an icon meaning 'church' - a person familiar with a place might not even remember which end the steeple was on when put on the spot - for Newcastle residents, are you sure you know which side the Cathedral steeple is on without looking?). Yet a European familiar with maps, might try to emulate official maps, especially when in an official situation, like court proceedings - so we can expect this map to be a jumble. It's likely then that the lines from the names Elliot, Wells and Menslowe at the bottom do not indicate their position and movement down the hill, but are merely labels with lines pointing to where on the map they were standing when the murder occured about 150yards up the hill from the church, near the pathway, with Elliot and constable being about 50 yards from the murder. It would be important to indicate their positions and proximity, to prove they could see what they say they saw in their witness statements. So I imagine the act of drawing the sketch map goes like this: It was up on the hill. Draw crude hill from side on (naif maps almost always depict a hill this way). About 150 yards from the Church, draw an arbitrary church with a steeple. There's the pathway leading down to the farm. The murder was here. Elliot and Constable were here about 50yards from the murder. The drawing becomes crowded, so a methodical way of indicating positions on the path and The Hill is introduced with names at the bottom and lines to where they were, and arrows to reinforce the point that this person was up there. All this considered, the murder being near the old path depicted in the Lycett drawing, about 150yards up The Hill from the church around the end of the alley called 'Marine View', the corner of Tyrell and Wolfe St, or the grounds of the Grammar School. https://www.google.com/maps/place/Marine+View,+The+Hill+NSW+2300/@-32.92991,151.7773796,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x6b73146f7fd0cf19:0xda1715ca2f764c05!8m2!3d-32.92991!4d151.7795683

Sources

TLCMap ID

t26dd

Linkback

https://hunterlivinghistories.com/2016/02/09/burigon/

Source

https://hunterlivinghistories.com/2016/02/09/burigon/

Created At

2021-07-10 16:34:14

Updated At

2023-12-11 17:49:41

Ravensworth Homestead

Type: Site

Details

Latitude

-32.41447601

Longitude

151.06484413

Start Date

1820-01-01

End Date

2021-08-31

State

NSW

Feature Term

homestead

Description

Ravensworth Homestead. Colonial building. Important to Wonnarua history, including campaigns in the frontier wars. Desired by Glencore coal mining. Seehttps://hunterlivinghistories.com/2018/06/20/aerial-photos-ravensworth/and https://www.facebook.com/DavidShoebridgeMLC/posts/372937980859744https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/hallowed-ground-outcry-over-plan-to-remove-homestead-for-coal-mine-20210417-p57k14.html(date is not accurate, SMH says 'dates from the 1820s)

Sources

TLCMap ID

t26f5

Created At

2021-08-04 14:48:33

Updated At

2023-12-11 17:49:41

K'gari

Type: Placename

Details

Latitude

-25.2386995

Longitude

153.132038

State

ACT

Description

"K'gari, pronounced "Gurri", means paradise, and is what the Butchulla people have always called the island, derived from its Dreamtime creation story" - Return to paradise for K'gari Fraser Island, ABC News, Posted Mon 20 Sep 2021 at 11:56amMonday 20 Sep 2021 at 11:56am, updated Mon 20 Sep 2021 at 11:58am, https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-09-20/return-to-paradise-for-k-gari-fraser-island/100475554See also:https://parks.des.qld.gov.au/parks/kgari-fraser/abouthttps://statements.qld.gov.au/statements/93269

Sources

TLCMap ID

t2beb

Linkback

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-09-20/return-to-paradise-for-k-gari-fraser-island/100475554

Source

Return to paradise for K'gari Fraser Island, ABC News, Posted Mon 20 Sep 2021 at 11:56amMonday 20 Sep 2021 at 11:56am, updated Mon 20 Sep 2021 at 11:58am, https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-09-20/return-to-paradise-for-k-gari-fraser-island/100475554

Created At

2021-10-05 15:50:40

Updated At

2023-12-11 17:49:41

Smiler Massacre

Placename: Beebo
Type: Event

Details

Latitude

-28.731

Longitude

150.951

Start Date

1849-05-01

End Date

1849-05-01

State

NSW

Description

Locating the site of the Beebo massacre is difficult. There are two river Severns close to each other on either side of the NSW-QLD border, to the north and to the south of Beebo. One is a tributary of the Dumeresq River and the other of the Macintyre River. The narrative says the Capt. Walker recruited native police from the Murray River, so they were coming up to the Severn from the South. Though it's not clear if by river ways, such as up the Darling and Barwon, and so approaching from the west and downstream or overland and so approaching from the SW and upstream. Smiler was going by land, as and arrived at Beebo heading for the McIntyre River. Beebo pastoral station and the town is marked in TLCMap as just north of the border. There is also a 'Beebo Crossing' on the Severn below the border closer to the McIntyre. He heard an ambush was waiting for him about 10 miles away where he usually camped, but that the native police were arriving soon so he waited for them and they went on together. They told him to camp as usual and they would counter the ambush. The Aboriginal people came down from and retreated into scrub. So the massacre occured at that camp. Beebo Crossing, must be so named for an old crossing point of the McIntyre, and a river crossing is a likely place for a bullock train driver to camp. It is roughly 10 mile SE from Beebo station, and on the way from the NSW Severn River going to the McIntyre, and there are low hills there which may have been the scrub. This then is the most likely point. Other candidates might be at nearby Yetman, where there looks to be a good ford from satellite images, but rivers change a lot; or up along the Dumeresq River approach to the McIntyre which would be an alternative route from Beebo station to the McIntyre River. This is described in the Colonial Frontier Massacres website as a slightly different place. I haven't read the Skinner source, which may have more detail. This was one among a series of violent events in the area, including violent murders on both sides of innocent women and children, and cattle rustling. The account can be read in 'Personal Reminiscences by John Watts, 1901'.

Sources

TLCMap ID

t9e9d

Linkback

http://www.todaysstories.com.au/S2/podcasts/shownotes/Personal-Reminiscences-John-Watts-1901.pdf

Source

pp37-39 Personal Reminiscences by John Watts, 1901, Digital version prepared by Peter Watts, 2019 http://www.todaysstories.com.au/S2/podcasts/shownotes/Personal-Reminiscences-John-Watts-1901.pdf

Created At

2022-02-28 23:40:19

Updated At

2023-12-11 17:49:41

Wollumbin

Placename: Wollumbin
Type: Site

Details

Latitude

-28.3976

Longitude

153.2695

State

NSW

Feature Term

mountain

Description

Sacred site in Bundjalung country. Also known as Mt Warning.

Sources

TLCMap ID

ta4b2

Linkback

https://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/aboriginalplaces/Wollumbin.htm

Source

Bundjalung

Created At

2022-03-25 10:13:25

Updated At

2023-12-11 17:49:41

Burrel Bulai

Placename: Barralbarayi
Type: Other

Details

Latitude

-30.7816

Longitude

152.5677

State

NSW

Feature Term

mountain

Description

Sacred mountain in Dunghutti country. Also known as Burrel Bulai, Barralbarayi, Mt Anderson, Mt Sugarloaf, Anderson's Sugarloaf.

Sources

TLCMap ID

ta4b3

Linkback

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cI_y4SQdO0U

Source

Bob Smith, Dunghutti

Created At

2022-03-25 10:29:19

Updated At

2023-12-11 17:49:41

Gulaga

Placename: Gulaga
Type: Site

Details

Latitude

-36.3064

Longitude

150.0283

State

NSW

Feature Term

mountain

Description

Sacred mountain in Yuin Nation. Also known as Mt Dromedary.

Sources

TLCMap ID

ta4b4

Linkback

https://www.nma.gov.au/exhibitions/endeavour-voyage/gulaga-mount-dromedary

Source

Warren Foster, Djiringanj Yuin

Created At

2022-03-25 10:34:46

Updated At

2023-12-11 17:49:41

Kabook Tribe

Placename: Kabook
Type: Placename

Details

Latitude

-32.011

Longitude

152.349

Start Date

1922-04-25

End Date

1922-04-25

State

NSW

Description

A 1922 article describes the area between the Manning River and Wallamba River as being the 'Towri' or tribal territory of the Kabook Tribe. Peeps into the Past. (1922, April 25). The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer (NSW : 1898 - 1954), p. 2. Retrieved May 20, 2022, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article166220493

Sources

TLCMap ID

ta52d

Linkback

https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/166220493?browse=ndp%3Abrowse%2Ftitle%2FW%2Ftitle%2F702%2F1922%2F04%2F25%2Fpage%2F16273391%2Farticle%2F166220493

Source

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer (NSW : 1898 - 1954), p. 2. Retrieved May 20, 2022, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article166220493

Created At

2022-05-20 16:41:33

Updated At

2023-12-11 17:49:41

Mithaka Treaty

Placename: Mithaka
Type: Event

Details

Latitude

-25.337

Longitude

140.667

Start Date

1889

End Date

1889

State

NSW

Description

A peace treaty was negotiated between Mithaka people and settlers in the Channel Country. This is not the exact location of the treaty, but a general indication of Mithaka country. See: https://theconversation.com/friday-essay-but-we-already-had-a-treaty-tom-griffiths-on-a-little-known-1889-peace-accord-182511and https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/c33fd50ffb8c4656855afe8231661c59

Sources

TLCMap ID

ta52e

Linkback

https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/c33fd50ffb8c4656855afe8231661c59

Created At

2022-05-23 12:25:28

Updated At

2023-12-11 17:49:41

Mooloolah Fringe Camp

Placename: Mooloolah
Type: Site

Details

Latitude

-26.759

Longitude

152.961

Start Date

1920

End Date

1930

State

QLD

Description

An Aboriginal fringe camp existed at least some time in the 1930s, near this railway overpass at Mooloolah. According to Brian Pascoe, his mother Vera Pascoe (nee Irvine) would always stop and talk to the people there on her way home when she was a girl. Having some unknown Aboriginal background it's possible she was related to them. At the time, mixed race children put on a white path, and others admitted to white society (eg: with 'dog tags'), were not meant to associate with Aboriginal people, and could be punished for doing so. None the less, stories are common of conversations 'over the fence'. Vera was the daughter of Mr Irvine, a railway fettler who built and maintained the north coast line, and so, living in tents along the way likely to have encountered fringe settlements.

Sources

TLCMap ID

ta530

Source

Oral history - Brian Pascoe

Created At

2022-05-29 12:17:42

Updated At

2023-12-11 17:49:41

Carruga

Placename: Mount Cooroora
Type: Placename

Details

Latitude

-26.366

Longitude

152.833

State

QLD

Feature Term

mountain

Description

Kabi Kabi placename for Mt Cooroora, according to Steele, who seems to get it from Simpson and Eipper, who get it from Bracewell. It is an obvious navigational landmark, for people on the northern Bunya routes, or from the coast at the Maroochy mouth or Noosa to the Mary River in the ranges. Most likely related to the Maroochy story, due to the clear visibility in relation to it, though I can't find any attestations. We might speculate it's Ninderry's clan. "The Gympie Area The Mary Valley from Imbil to Gootchie, centred on Gympie, is generally regarded as territory of the Kabi people. This area is much smaller than that of the Kabi language group, but larger than that occupied by Murudhalin's clan, the people described by Mathew and therefore regarded as classic Kabi. Frequent mention is made here of the journey of Simpson and Eipper in 1843, and their route is traced on figure 109. Mount Cooroora was an important landmark on their journey; it was pointed out to them by Bracewell, who called it Carruga and said that it was fifteen miles from the coast, with bunya scrubs extending beyond it towards the coast. Clans such as Bracewell's Carburrah at Lake Cootharaba would have used the mountain as a navigational aid on their journeys between the coast and the bunya country. Stretching to the north of Cooroora is a range (Beenam) which Bracewell knew as Moppevah (place of honey). The Beenam Range forms the boundary between Dulingbara and Kabi territory. Mounts Tagigan and Goomboorian also lie on this boundary. Tagigan is possibly dha-gigam, the place of the white cockatoo, and Goomboorian may be connected with gumbo, the tree grub." - Aboriginal Pathways: in Southeast Queensland and the Richmond River, John Gladstone Steele

Sources

TLCMap ID

ta550

Source

Aboriginal Pathways: in Southeast Queensland and the Richmond River, John Gladstone Steele

Created At

2022-06-26 18:20:23

Updated At

2023-12-11 17:49:41

Mageelong

Placename: Snowy River
Type: Placename

Details

Latitude

-37.75

Longitude

148.518

Start Date

-1

End Date

-1

State

VIC

Feature Term

river

Description

According to Mr De Villiers, 'Mageelong' is the Aboriginal name for the Snowy River in Kurnai country. "During the night though the blacks wore the semblance of perfect security, by any observer it could be seen that they were not altogether at ease, and the shooting of the natives at (Mageelong) 'Snowy River,' was frequently mentioned, and appeared to have made a deep impression of dread upon them." (De Villiers record is Feb 1847) p3, Port Phillip Herald, Feb 16, 1847 https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=EVKlETVVbN8C&dat=18470216&printsec=frontpage&hl=en

Sources

TLCMap ID

ta5b0

Linkback

https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=EVKlETVVbN8C&dat=18470216&printsec=frontpage&hl=en

Source

De Villiers record is Feb 1847, published: p3, Port Phillip Herald, Feb 16, 1847 https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=EVKlETVVbN8C&dat=18470216&printsec=frontpage&hl=en

Created At

2022-06-29 16:26:05

Updated At

2023-12-11 17:49:41

Native Police

Placename: Nerre Nerre Warren
Type: Site

Details

Latitude

-37.956

Longitude

145.237

State

VIC

Description

Native Police camp. From here Native Police under William Dana (not to be confused with his brother Henry Dana) set out on a controversial expedition in search of the 'white woman', now generally thought to be mythical, held captive by Bungaleena in Kurnai country. Mr De Villiers and Mr Warman of a independent search party claimed Dana and the native police massacred people at Snowy River. One side of the partisan media at the time had called for the Native Police to find the white woman by force, while another side funded the independent expedition to find her by peaceful means. Police later claimed, and de Villiers only found evidence for, 1 murder. Witnesses mentioned more of varying numbers. What really happened is shrouded in contrary claims, missing police reports, claims of falsification, biased accounts, vested interests and career aspirations and rivalries. There is a difference also between how many were killed in the incident at Snowy River and on the expedition generally. Around 11 years after the events, CCL Tyers, W Dana's superior, said at least 50 Aboriginal people were killed by the parties searching for the white woman.

Sources

TLCMap ID

ta5e1

Linkback

https://minerva-access.unimelb.edu.au/items/4c40418a-7374-5802-8878-b2d4eae36667

Source

Fels, M H Good Men and True: The Aboriginal Police Of The Port Phillip District 1837-1853 PhD Thesis, University of Melbourne, 1986

Created At

2022-07-11 22:19:15

Updated At

2023-12-11 17:49:41

Execution of Dundalli, resistance leader

Placename: General Post Office
Type: Event

Details

Latitude

-27.46782

Longitude

153.02788

Start Date

1855-01-05

End Date

1855-01-05

State

QLD

LGA

BRISBANE CITY

Description

Warning: Contains depiction of violence.Aboriginal resistance leader Dundalli was convicted of murder and publicly executed outside the GPO building, guarded by soldiers to prevent an escape attempt. Although resistance continued before and after this is generally regarded as the end point of the frontier wars in south east Queensland 1842-55 when fighting was most intense. (Location is based on the detail 'in front of the gaol' and visible from Windmill Hill opposite, see 1855 map of Brisbane https://collections.slq.qld.gov.au/viewer/IE423867.) See also Trove article https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/251547749

Sources

TLCMap ID

t17741

Linkback

https://honesthistory.net.au/wp/wp-content/uploads/Indigenous-Resistance-Wars-KerkhoveFINALa-2.pdf

Source

Kerkhove, Ray Another Mode Of War https://honesthistory.net.au/wp/wp-content/uploads/Indigenous-Resistance-Wars-KerkhoveFINALa-2.pdf

Created At

2023-01-05 20:17:53

Updated At

2023-12-11 17:49:41

Kiripit

Placename: Kiripit
Type: Placename

Details

Latitude

-31.9916

Longitude

151.7033

State

ACT

Description

Kiripit was a station, now known as Rawdon Vale.

Sources

TLCMap ID

t1c006

Linkback

https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/166220492

Source

https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/166220492

Created At

2023-01-27 13:34:55

Updated At

2023-12-11 17:49:41

Muttaburra Shearers Strike

Placename: Muttaburra
Type: Event

Details

Latitude

-22.5934

Longitude

144.5488

Start Date

1891

End Date

1892

State

ACT

Description

After a large amount of squatter occupied land had been resumed by the the QLD government, and as wool prices fell, workers resisted attempts to establish non-Union contracts and set up camps in Aramac and Muttaburra. At the camp 80 men grew to 150, mostly mounted. After floods swept away camps, "At Barcaldine, one hundred and twenty mounted infantry with drawn bayonets surrounded the union office, arresting the strike committee and charging them with conspiracy and sedition. The strike collapsed, with thirteen of the union leaders standing trial at Rockhampton. They were each sentenced to three year’s jail on St Helena island prison and were fined £200."

Sources

TLCMap ID

t1c049

Linkback

https://www.muttaburra.com/author/line26/

Source

"Pastoral History of the Aramac Shire" on the "Welcome to Muttaburra" website

Created At

2023-02-21 19:48:14

Updated At

2023-12-11 17:49:41

Nurengong / Murray River

Placename: Nurengong
Type: Placename

Details

Latitude

-36.09129

Longitude

146.90619

Start Date

1898

End Date

1898

State

VIC

Feature Term

river

Description

Name for Murray River. In 'Letters from Victorian pioneers, being a series of papers on the early occupation of the colony, the aborigines, etc' Settler Mackay wrote: "I took my stock back to the Hume River (Nurengong)." https://archive.org/stream/lettersfromvicto00publiala/lettersfromvicto00publiala_djvu.txtAt the time the 'Hume River' was the colonists name for the Murray River. So it seems Nurengong, as an Aboriginal word may have been the name for the Murray River, or the Murray River in the vicinity of the south road (now the Hume Highway), so around Albury/Wodonga.So this would likely be a Wiradjuri/Waveroo/Dhudhuroa word. Another reference to the word is in an 1848 description of the boundaries of pastoralists runs, as 'Nurengong Plain', suggesting either that Nurengong is the word for the general area, or that it's simply the plain of the Nurengong river. In any case this may be simply the name of a plain assigned at a later date based on the name used by Mackay.https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/230149524/14255009I haven't checked Wiradjuri language for the possible meaning of Nurengong.

Sources

TLCMap ID

t1c29c

Linkback

https://archive.org/stream/lettersfromvicto00publiala/lettersfromvicto00publiala_djvu.txt

Source

https://archive.org/stream/lettersfromvicto00publiala/lettersfromvicto00publiala_djvu.txt

Created At

2023-04-09 10:32:52

Updated At

2023-12-11 17:49:41

Big Hill

Placename: Big Hill
Type: Placename

Details

Latitude

-28.075804313872307

Longitude

151.72835823748338

Description

Probable location of Big Hill.

Sources

TLCMap ID

tc65c8

Linkback

https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/3542489

Source

The Brisbane Courier (Qld. : 1864 - 1933) Fri 27 May 1892, Page 2, DARKEY FLAT GOLDFIELD https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/3542489

Created At

2023-11-01 18:06:10

Updated At

2023-12-11 17:49:41

Darkey Flat

Placename: Darkey Flat
Type: Other

Details

Latitude

-28.097193717509832

Longitude

151.79749485705193

Description

Probable location of Darkey Flat. "The gully in which the gold was discovered issituated on the Talgai goldfield, about twomiles west of the township of Pratten on Darkey Flat, twenty-three miles from Warwickby road, and about a mile east-south-east ofthe Big Hill, which is situated on the ridgedividing the Thane's Creek waters from thoserunning directly into the Condamine River." The phrase 'on Darkey Flat' is ambigous possibly meaning that the Talgai goldfield is on Darkey Flat which is 2 miles west of Pratten. Or it could mean that Pratten is on Darkey Flat and the Talgai goldfield is 2m west of it. Judging from the location of the modern fossicking area it appears the fossicking area is 2m west of Pratten. There is a narrow flat 2mile west of Pratten and 1 mile ESE of a big hill, so this could be thought to be 'Darkey Flat', that you would get to before reaching the gully if travelling from Pratten. The article later mentions the gully opens onto a narrow flat known as Gum Tree Flat, which may be the flat to east or west of the gully on either side. However, the one on the east is especially narrow and flat (though the present fossicking area opens to the west). Since this is most likely Gum Tree Flat, it's like that the latter meaning, that Pratten is on Darkey Flat is intended. There are larger flatter more obvious flats that take up the whole valley floodplain that Pratten is in (on the Condamine). Since Darkey Flat used to be a post office and was interchangeable with 'Pratten' it's likely meant to be this larger flat area.

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TLCMap ID

tc65c9

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The Brisbane Courier (Qld. : 1864 - 1933) Fri 27 May 1892, Page 2, DARKEY FLAT GOLDFIELD https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/3542489

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2023-11-01 18:18:17

Updated At

2023-12-11 17:49:41

Gum Tree Flat

Placename: Gum Tree Flat
Type: Other

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Latitude

-28.083036344754294

Longitude

151.75520178530488

Description

Possible location of Gum Tree Flat.

"The gully opens out into a narrow flat known as Gum-tree Flat."

This is a narrow flat, thought the present fossicking gully seems to open out on the west, not here on the east, so it could be there.

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TLCMap ID

tc65ca

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The Brisbane Courier (Qld. : 1864 - 1933) Fri 27 May 1892, Page 2, DARKEY FLAT GOLDFIELD https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/3542489

Created At

2023-11-01 18:21:26

Updated At

2023-12-11 17:49:41

Nyungar Huts

Type: Site

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Latitude

-31.868227380763425

Longitude

116.36169430469245

Description

This region is marked as having 'Villages of native huts, thinly settled.' on an 1831 map of the Swan River colony in Nyungar country.

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TLCMap ID

td3b5d

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https://purl.slwa.wa.gov.au/slwa_b1660095_1

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Sketch of the Swan River Colony including King George's Sound [cartographic material] / J. & C. Walker sculpt.J. & C. Walker.Map | John Murray for the Royal Geographical Society | 1831

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2024-09-20 09:49:03

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2024-09-20 09:50:11

Early history of Peterborough

Placename: Peterborough
Type: Site

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-38.606172769838956

Longitude

142.8727447674085

Description

Webpage providing an early history of Peterborough and the region: https://www.peterborough.org.au/about/early-history-of-peterborough

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people should be aware that the history below contains
the names of deceased persons and the tragic stories of massacres of indigenous people .

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TLCMap ID

te57a4

Linkback

https://www.peterborough.org.au/about/early-history-of-peterborough

Source

Mullen, B. 2024 'Early history of Peterborough' Peterborough Residents Group https://www.peterborough.org.au/about/early-history-of-peterborough

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2025-10-25 12:12:26

Updated At

2025-10-25 12:14:22

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C Murder of Burigon

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C Ravensworth Homestead

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C K'gari

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C Smiler Massacre

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C Wollumbin

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C Burrel Bulai

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C Gulaga

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C Kabook Tribe

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C Mithaka Treaty

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C Mooloolah Fringe Camp

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C Carruga

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C Mageelong

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C Native Police

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C Execution of Dundalli, resistance leader

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C Kiripit

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C Muttaburra Shearers Strike

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C Nurengong / Murray River

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C Big Hill

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C Darkey Flat

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C Gum Tree Flat

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Murder of Burigon

Ravensworth Homestead

K'gari

Smiler Massacre

Wollumbin

Burrel Bulai

Gulaga

Kabook Tribe

Mithaka Treaty

Mooloolah Fringe Camp

Carruga

Mageelong

Native Police

Execution of Dundalli, resistance leader

Kiripit

Muttaburra Shearers Strike

Nurengong / Murray River

Big Hill

Darkey Flat

Gum Tree Flat

Nyungar Huts

Early history of Peterborough