Pinjarra Massacre (28 October 1834): Dispatches & Spatial Cartography
Historical & Spatial Analysis
On 28 October 1834, Governor James Stirling led a detachment of 21 armed colonial soldiers and police in an attack on a Bindjareb Bibbullmun encampment along the Murray River near Pinjarra (-32.628, 115.871). Primary colonial dispatches (CO 18/1) and Bibbullmun oral histories confirm significant casualties.