 White woman of Gippsland

The white woman of Gippsland, or the captive woman of Gippsland, was supposedly a European woman rumoured to have been held against her will by Aboriginal Kurnai people in the Gippsland region of Australia in the 1840s.Her supposed plight excited searches and much speculation at the time, though nothing to put her existence beyond the level of rumour was ever found.