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Bentinck Island

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Bentinck Island is one of the South Wellesley Islands, in Queensland's Gulf of Carpentaria. The traditional home of the Kaiadilt people, the island was the site of a brutal massacre in 1918 known as the McKenzie massacre, in which many Indigenous inhabitants died.

Adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)。Photography via Wikimedia Commons.

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