The Cape Grim massacre was an attack on 10 February 1828 in which a group of Aboriginal Tasmanians gathering food at a beach in the north-west of Tasmania is said to have been ambushed and shot by four Van Diemen's Land Company (VDLC) workers, with bodies of some of the victims then thrown from a 60-metre (200 ft) cliff. About 30 men are thought to have been killed in the attack, which was a reprisal action for an earlier Aboriginal raid on a flock of Van Diemen's Land Company sheep, but part of an escalating spiral of violence probably triggered by the abduction and rape of Aboriginal women in the area.[1][2] The massacre was part of the "Black War", the period of violent conflict between British colonists and Aboriginal Australians in Tasmania from the mid-1820s to 1832.
News of the Cape Grim killings did not reach Governor George Arthur for almost two years.[3] Arthur sent George Augustus Robinson, who held an unofficial government role as an Aboriginal conciliator, to investigate the incident, and later statements from company workers, a diary entry by the wife of a ship's captain and the testimony of an Aboriginal woman provided some further information. Despite the witness statements however, details of what took place are ambiguous. Some Australian authors such as Keith Windschuttle have subsequently disputed the magnitude of the massacre or denied it occurred at all.[4]
The site of the massacre has been identified as the present-day Taneneryouer, formerly known as Suicide Bay,[5] facing the island outcrops known as The Doughboys.[6][7] Because a number of tribes were in the area at the time, it is uncertain which one was involved in the clash,[8] although historian Lyndall Ryan states that those killed were members of the Peerapper clan.[9]
^Clements 2014, pp. 181
^McFarlane 2008, pp. 54–60
^Boyce 2010, pp. 204–205
^McFarlane 2008, p. 97, 99
^"30 Aboriginal men were killed at 'Suicide Bay' — now it's being renamed". www.abc.net.au. 31 March 2021. Retrieved 1 April 2021.
^Lennox 1990, p. 203
^McFarlane 2012
^McFarlane 2003, p. 283
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