Significant1788 – 1934 · 146 years

Australian Frontier Wars

Name: War Atlas: Named Conflicts and Empire Borders, 3000 BCE – Present
Creator: War Atlas
Keywords: wars, military history, conflicts, empires, historical atlas, casualties

Australia

Estimated casualties

40Ksingle estimate · no range published

146-year conflict establishing colonial Australia through dispossession and genocide of Aboriginal peoples.

Belligerents2

British Empire
Aboriginal Australians

ON THE MAPBritish Empire (1783)

Sources

Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

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Cite as: Australian Frontier Wars (1788 – 1934). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/c/australian-frontier-wars · Sources & methodology