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Layer Id 2488 Name Gomeroi Resistance
Description

Events in will be added as research continues as part of the Australian Wars and Resistance work.

For a summary of this conflict see: Our Stories on the Mehi Centre website.

Mark Copland's thesis, 1990, A system of assassination : the MacIntyre River Frontier 1837-1850 has thorough detail on the McIntyre River region: https://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:328072

More than 150,000 words of colonial news reporting on this conflict and resistance are available in Gomeroi Resistance, Colonial News, available as:

html (read online)

pdf (print or read offline)

epub (read in ebook reader)

More sources from Government records and police reports, including more details on the early phase of the conflict and Major Nunn's expedition will be added in future. These texts will be used to identify people, places and events in this war.

Type Other
Warning

Historical sources include racist attitudes and language, and descriptions of violence.

Created At 2025-08-11 10:44:40
Updated At 2026-04-15 14:48:43 Ghap Url https://tlcmap.org/layers/2488
Statistic Value Unit
Total Places
14 -
Area
17156.12 km2
Convex Hull
POLYGON((150.85 -30.645,150.399 -30.431,149.451 -29.792,150.113 -28.323,150.552 -28.725,150.717 -29.778,150.85 -30.645)) -
Density
0.00081603532733508 places/km2
Centroid
POINT(150.2817142857143 -29.379142857142856) -
Bounding Box
POLYGON((149.451 -30.645,149.451 -28.323,150.85 -28.323,150.85 -30.645,149.451 -30.645)) -
Most Central Place
Biniguy -
Most Distant Place from center
Waterloo Plains, Namoi River -
Distribution
  • Average Distance from Centroid: 71.449752403324
  • Average Distance from Centroid / Area of Convex Hull: 0.0041646801493183
kilometers
Start Date
1835-01-01 -
End Date
1849-06-30 -
Duration
14.5 years
Median Date
1838-06-08 -
Average Date
1841-06-03 -