Nukapu Expedition

Nukapu Expedition
Nukapu c. 1870
Date October 1871 – February 1872 Location Nukapu, Solomon Islands Result British victory
Belligerents
Royal Navy	Nukapu natives
Commanders and leaders
Albert Hastings Markham	Unknown
Casualties and losses
1 killed, 2 wounded	20–30 killed

The Nukapu expedition was a British punitive expedition from October 1871 until February 1872, in response to the murder of missionary John Coleridge Patteson by natives of Nukapu, one of the easternmost islands of the Solomon Islands in the South Pacific Ocean. A Royal Navy warship was sent to the island, sinking a group of hostile war-canoes and landing men to attack a fortified village.