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
Southern part of Bentinck Island and Albinia Island
Bentinck Island with the Australian continent in the background
the small Fowler Island is located between Seers Island and Bentinck Island
Location of Bentinck Island
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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