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Recovered Aboriginal songs offer clues to 19th century mystery of the shipwrecked 'white woman'

  • Written by Stephen Morey, Senior Lecturer, Department of Languages and Linguistics, La Trobe University
Recovered Aboriginal songs offer clues to 19th century mystery of the shipwrecked 'white woman'An image of the landscape around Bairnsdale in the late-18th century. D. R Long (Daniel Rutter), between 1856 and 1883. State Library of Victoria

In 1846 Melbourne was gripped by a panic: a story had spread that a white woman had been shipwrecked off the coast of Gippsland and was living with Aboriginal people. “Expeditions” were sent...

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