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NameFlinders Ranges War and Resistance
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Events in this conflict will be added as Australian Wars and Resistance research continues.

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ContributorDr Bill Pascoe
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Added to System2025-08-11 10:43:50
Updated in System2025-08-11 10:54:04
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Brachina Gorge Flinders Ranges

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Event
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Latitude
-31.342
Longitude
138.553
Start Date
1852-03-17
End Date
1852-03-17

Description

On 14 March 1852 stockman Robert Richardson was killed by Yura warriors at Aroona station in the Flinders Ranges. Two Yura men, 'Billy' and 'Jemmy' were arrested for the murder, but were not brought to trial for lack of evidence. In 1929, the reminiscences of Richardson's employer, Johnson Frederick Hayward, were published in the 'Proceedings' of the Royal Geographical Society of Australasia (South Australia Branch). According to Foster and Nettelbeck (2001, p 102), in the aftermath of the Richardson killing, Hayward 'with several companions ascertained where the Yuras were camped, in a gorge between the Heysen and ABC ranges, about four miles from Youngoona and thirteen miles south of Aroona homestead [and in Hayward's words] "determined to attack them at dawn" and capture the males, among them those suspected of Richardson's murder'... Hayward describes "a good fusillade" on the Yura camp' (Foster and Nettelbeck, 2001, p 102). Initially Hayward insisted that most had escaped and a few were wounded but in a later account in his own hand he states '... that we had killed 40, 50 or 60 blackfellows' with the numbers crossed out and replaced with '15 or 20'. The number killed appears as 15 in the final publication of this account (Foster and Nettelbeck, 2001, p 102).

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Source_ID
695
LanguageGroup
Yura - Adnyamathanha
Colony
SA
StateOrTerritory
SA
PoliceDistrict
Hawker
Victims
Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander People
VictimsDead
15
VictimDescription
Aboriginal
Attackers
Colonists
AttackersDead
0
AttackerDescription
Settler(s), Stockmen/Drover(s)
CorroborationRating
**
War
Flinders Ranges
Stage
Flinders Ranges
Region
South
Period
South

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TLCMap ID
te15ff
Linkback
https://c21ch.newcastle.edu.au/colonialmassacres/detail.php?r=695
Source
Foster and Nettelbeck, 2001, pp 94-105.
Created At
2025-08-11 10:44:05
Updated At
2025-08-11 10:44:05

Willocra Creek, Ragless Station

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Event
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Latitude
-32.143
Longitude
138.131
Start Date
1856-01-01
End Date
1856-12-31

Description

Massacre recorded in Indigenous knowledge. This site has been added to ���Colonial Frontier Massacres��� project from ���The South Australian Frontier and its Legacies��� in order to represent the known war in the Flinders Ranges, with 3 sites required to form a polygon.

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Source_ID
OH01
LanguageGroup
Adnyamathanha
Colony
SA
StateOrTerritory
SA
Victims
Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander People
VictimsDead
6
VictimDescription
Aboriginal
Attackers
Colonists
AttackersDead
0
AttackerDescription
Settler(s)
CorroborationRating
*
War
Flinders Ranges
Stage
South Australia
Region
South
Period
South

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TLCMap ID
te1600
Linkback
https://frontiersa-uofadel.hub.arcgis.com/pages/oralhistories/#OH01
Source
Smith, Claudia in Foster et al, 'The South Australian Frontier and its Legacies' University of Adelaide https://frontiersa-uofadel.hub.arcgis.com/pages/flindersfarnorth/#OH01 (accessed 2025)
Created At
2025-08-11 10:44:05
Updated At
2025-08-11 10:44:05

Beltana

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Event
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Latitude
-30.931
Longitude
138.42
Start Date
1863-11-27
End Date
1863-11-27

Description

3 people killed by McKay and others. This site has been added to ���Colonial Frontier Massacres��� project from ���The South Australian Frontier and its Legacies��� in order to represent the known war in the Flinders Ranges, with 3 sites required to form a polygon.

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Source_ID
FFN26
LanguageGroup
Adnyamathanha
Colony
SA
StateOrTerritory
SA
Victims
Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander People
VictimsDead
3
VictimDescription
Aboriginal
Attackers
Colonists
AttackersDead
0
AttackerDescription
Settler(s)
CorroborationRating
***
War
Flinders Ranges
Stage
South Australia
Region
South
Period
South

Sources

TLCMap ID
te1601
Linkback
https://frontiersa-uofadel.hub.arcgis.com/pages/flindersfarnorth/#FFN26
Source
Foster et al, 'The South Australian Frontier and its Legacies' University of Adelaide https://frontiersa-uofadel.hub.arcgis.com/pages/flindersfarnorth/#FFN26 (accessed 2025)
Created At
2025-08-11 10:44:05
Updated At
2025-08-11 10:44:05
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