Gazetteer of Historical Australian Places
| Name | Indigenous Resistance - Strategic Areas |
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| Description | At present this layer is just a way to make some quick notes of some important places in the Australian Wars of places where the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander resistance used terrain and waters strategically, for example, to evade pursuit in labyrinthine ranges; using rocky and swampy terrain where horses could not easily go; rugged and forested or scrubby terrain where fire and steep slopes could be used to evade capture; etc. |
| Type | Other |
| Content Warning | Colonial violence. |
| Contributor | bill.pascoe@newcastle.edu.au |
| Entries | 4 |
| Allow ANPS? | No |
| Added to System | 2024-04-27 12:06:52 |
| Updated in System | 2024-04-27 12:33:26 |
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Rocky and swampy terrain used by Gunditjmara in the Eumeralla wars.
Extremely arid country NW of Coniston used to evade Murray's 1st massacre expedition, where it's not possible to survive without knowing the location of the few soaks. Murray also mentioned the difficulty of pursing people in the ranges to the north west, but there don't seem to be any ranges out here. Perhaps that was the ones west of Yuendumu? Though it seems pretty clear he was going up towards Tanami, where it was supposed that Aboriginal warriors were attacking from.
Very rugged forested and rocky country with precipitous gullies used as a base from which to raid sheep stations on the western plains, and evade horseborne pursuit. Fire and steep rocky inclines were also used in tactical manouvres.
Multiple forested and mountainous areas near Brisbane and Toowoomba used in resistance. See Kerkhove detailed maps and accounts.