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Competition and Conflict of the forgotten Frontier: Western Van Diemen's Land 1822-33

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posted on 2023-05-17, 01:16 authored by Hamish Maxwell-StewartHamish Maxwell-Stewart
This article explores the impact of Macquarie Harbour penal station on the Aboriginal population of Western Van Diemen’s Land in the period 1822–33. It questions some of the assumptions that have been made in the recent literature about the level of contact between Europeans and Aboriginal bands along this coast prior to George Augustus Robinson’s ‘friendly mission’ of 1830–34. In particular it disputes the claim that the relatively low numbers of people encountered by Robinson were indicative of pre-contact population levels and surveys the factors that led to increasing levels of violence.

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Publication title

History Australia: Journal of the Australian Historical Association

Volume

6

Pagination

66.1-20

ISSN

1449-0854

Department/School

School of Humanities

Publisher

Monash University ePress

Place of publication

Melbourne

Repository Status

  • Restricted

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Expanding knowledge in history, heritage and archaeology

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