South Wellesley Islands
Coordinates: 17°03′55″S 139°30′36″E / 17.065318°S 139.509888°E
Location map of the South Wellesley Islands
The South Wellesley Islands, located South of the Wellesley Islands in the Gulf of Carpentaria, Queensland, are :
- Bentinck Island, Queensland
Where a massacre of indigenous inhabitants occurred in 1918.[1]
- Sweers Island
- Fowler Island, Queensland
- Albinia Island
- Horseshoe Island, Queensland
- Allen Island, Queensland
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Southern part of Bentinck Island and Albinia Island
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Bentinck Island with the Australian continent in the background
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the small Fowler Island is located between Seers Island and Bentinck Island
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Location of Bentinck Island
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Southern part of Sweers Island
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References
- ↑ Bruce Elder (1998). Blood on the Wattle: Massacres and maltreatment of Aboriginal Australians since 1788. Page 203 - 206: New Holland Publishers. ISBN 1-86436-410-6.
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