Coniston Massacre Routes - Colonial Sources

Routes of the 3 massacre expeditions of the Coniston massacres, according to colonial sources. See also: Coniston: Massacres in Aboriginal Oral History https://ghap.tlcmap.org/myprofile/mydatasets/1298

and Coniston Massacre Sites https://ghap.tlcmap.org/myprofile/mycollections/89

Bradley, M 2019, Coniston, UWA Press, Perth.

Bowman, Marg (ed) Every Hill Got A Story Central Land Council, Hardie Grant Books, 2015 https://www.clc.org.au/every-hill-got-a-story/

H.E.C. Robinson Ltd. Map of Northern Territory showing pastoral stations &c Canberra: H.E.C. Robinson, 1945. Web. 21 April 2024 http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-410786254

Kimber, D., 'Real True History: The Coniston Massacre' (serialised in 18 parts), Alice Springs News, vol 10, issue 32, to vol 11, issue 3, 2003-04.
https://alicespringsnews.com.au/2018/08/15/the-coniston-massacre-remembered/

Hill, Ernestine "MURRAY—SCOURGE OF THE MYALLS" in Northern Standard (Darwin, NT : 1921 - 1955) 3 March 1933 http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article48058883.

Making Peace with The Past: Remembering the Coniston Massacre, 1928-2003. Central Land Council, 2003 https://digitalntl.nt.gov.au/10070/660392/0/4

Colonial violence.

Sites on the first of three massacre expeditions lead by Mounted Constable Murray, where the expedition encountered Aboriginal people, according to Bradley in Coniston, 2019.

Colonial Violence.

Sites on the second of three massacre expeditions lead by Mounted Constable Murray, where the expedition encountered Aboriginal people, according to Kimber in Real True History: The Coniston Massacre. This expedition is the most obscure, with few details recorded.

"Oral histories, which can only be approximations in time, indicate that, as might be expected, the patrol travelled north along the Hanson River from Pine Hill, having three encounters; from Coniston travelled north along the Lander River country where two more encounters took place; then followed down the Lander and had two more encounters in the general Coniston area." (Kimber, 2003-2004)

Kimber's estimates appear to fill in gaps on the Lander and Hanson rivers left by the 1st and 3rd expeditions.

Kimber, D., 'Real True History: The Coniston Massacre' (serialised in 18 parts), Alice Springs News, vol 10, issue 32, to vol 11, issue 3, 2003-04.
https://alicespringsnews.com.au/2018/08/15/the-coniston-massacre-remembered/

Colonial Violence. These locations are based on rough estimates only, as the inferred locations are only in the most general terms such as north along the river.

Sites on the third of three massacre expeditions lead by Mounted Constable Murray, where the expedition encountered Aboriginal people, according to Bradley in Coniston, 2019.

Colonial violence.