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Kalkadoon (Kalkatungu) Indigenous Australian tribe living in the Mount Isa region of Queensland. In 1884 they were massacred at Battle Mountain in a fight against police.The first Europeans to visit the area were explorers Burke and Wills who crossed the Cloncurry River in 1861.Edward Palmer settled on the edge of their country in 1864 and tried to learn their language. Ernest Henry arrived in 1866 discovering copper and founding the Great Australia Mine.