One of the largest massacres in Victoria’s history took place on the shores near Portland estimated to have occured in the year of 1833 or 1834, due to a dispute between the whalers and the Kilcarer Clan of the Gunditjmara people, over a beached whale carcass.
Though reports vary, it is estimated that between sixty to two hundred Aboriginal men, women and children were killed by the whalers. A report dating back to 1842 stated that the Gunditjmara people believed that only two members of the Kilcarer entire clan survived . . .
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