Skull Creek is a common name for a number of creeks and waterways in Australia. In each case, it is named so due to the killing of Aboriginal people in the area.
Map of Skull Creek, Sandstone WA, Australia
Skull Creek, Victoria, in the Gippsland region was the site of killings of Kurnai in 1842 during the Gippsland massacres.
Skull Creek, Northern Territory, near Barrow Creek, was the site of killings of Kaytetye in 1874, known as the Barrow Creek massacre.
Skull Creek, Western Australia, near Laverton, was the site of the white killings of Aboriginal people in the 19th century.
Don McLeod also tells a story of clashes over soak water at the time of the gold rushes in Western Australia:
McLeod relates a story told to him by an old prospector by the name of Long, observing an Aboriginal man and woman:
Skull Springs, Western Australia, near Nullagine, was the site of a massacre of Aboriginal people in the 19th century.
Skull Hole, on the head of Mistake Creek, Bladensburg Station (near Winton) Central Queensland. In 1888 the visiting Norwegian scientist Carl Lumholtz recalled how, in about 1882-84, he "was shown" at Bladensburg "a large number of skulls of natives who had been shot by the black police" some years earlier.
