Illustration of the discovery of the bodies of colonial explorers Frederick Panter, James Harding and William Goldwyer, published 1865

Published in the Illustrated London News, 7 October 1865. The caption reads: ‘Finding the Remains of the Lost Explorers, Harding, Panter, and Goldwyer, near Lagrange Bay, North-West Australia’.

Panter, Harding and Goldwyer were killed by Aboriginal people in 1864, while exploring north-west of Western Australia. In response, a reprisal party of colonists massacred somewhere around 20 Aboriginal people.