Pirlangimpi / Garden Point

Date: 1 Nov 1824 – 1 Dec 1824
Hostility increased and colonists were regularly raided, including at Garden Point / Pirlangimpi. 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 Tiwi Islands, with 3 sites required to form a polygon.
Notes:
CorroborationRating: ***
LanguageGroup: Tiwi
Victims: Colonists
VictimsDead: 2

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Sources

  • Morris, John 'The Tiwi and the British: an ill-fated outpost' in Aboriginal History, v 25, 2001, pp 261-243

Event mentions

  • Pirlangimpi / Garden Point
    1 Nov 1824 – 1 Dec 1824
    Hostility increased and colonists were regularly raided, including at Garden Point / Pirlangimpi. 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 Tiwi Islands, with 3 sites required to form a polygon.
    Source: Morris, John 'The Tiwi and the British: an ill-fated outpost' in Aboriginal History, v 25, 2001, pp 261-243