Historical information
Massacre Bay is located on Victoria's Great Ocean Road, and is in the centre of the Bay of Martyrs. The bay consists of 20 m high, red limestone bluffs. This paper by Ken Clements considers the origin of the term martyr in connection to this location, and where the Aboriginal massacre may have taken place.
Physical description
Thirteen page document by Ken Clements relating to Peterborough, Victoria. Contents include coastal features, local Aborigines, Bay of Martyrs, Massacre Bay, Massacre Hill, Buckley Creek Run, Pioneer Pastoralists, British Traversers, settlers, Peterborough, Maps, tourism, history method.
Photographs by Laurie Moore.
Subjects
- aborigines,
- bay of martyrs,
- massacre bay,
- massacre hill,
- buckley creek run,
- pioneer pastoralists,
- british traversers,
- settlers,
- peterborough,
- maps,
- tourism,
- history method,
- childers cove,
- barque children,
- murnane bay,
- sandy bay,
- dog trap bay,
- buckley creek,
- viviennes lookeout,
- stanhope bay,
- buttres bay,
- burnies beach,
- armstrong creek,
- flaxman hill,
- antares rock,
- lovers nook,
- crofts bay,
- clements,
- worm bay,
- halladale point,
- the well,
- wold dog cove,
- james irvine monument,
- curdies inlet,
- squirrel creek,
- wallaby creek,
- boggy creek,
- whiskey creek,
- pioneer beach,
- schomberg rock,
- young australia,
- spit,
- crown of thorns,
- newfield bay,
- the grotto,
- london bridge,
- point hesse,
- high cliffs,
- the arch,
- cape martyr,
- little massacre bay,
- aboriginal massacre,
- ken clements
