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	Burke & Wills the Movie - Directors' Statement
		Burke and Wills by Matt Zeremes and Oliver Torr.
		Burke and Wills was shot in nine long days, on a budget of $20,000 Australian dollars.
		Burke and Wills is a raw example of some of the tougher times life can serve up.
	www.burkeandwillsthemovie.com /content/view/2/38 (377 words)

	Burke and Wills expedition - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		In 1860-61, Robert O'Hara Burke and William John Wills led an expedition of 19 men with the intention of crossing Australia from south to north, a journey of 1,650 miles.
		Burke was an Irish-born ex-officer with the Austrian army, and later became police superintendent with virtually no skills in bushcraft.
		Wills was more adept than Burke at living in the wilderness, but it was Burke's leadership that was especially detrimental to the mission.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Burke_and_Wills_expedition (1804 words)

	Robert O'Hara Burke
		Burke and Wills were sent by the Victorian government to travel from Melbourne to the Gulf of Carpentaria.
		Burke and Wills died at the end of June while waiting to be rescued.
		Burke and Wills died a lonely death and are possibly Australia's most famous explorers.
	www.davidreilly.com /australian_explorers/burke/robert.htm (1071 words)

	Burke & Wills - easier version
		Burke was afraid that he would be beaten by John Stuart to be the first to explore inland Australia, and so he set off on camel with his expedition.
		Burke was so impatient to reach the Gulf, that he left some of his party behind with supplies at Menindee and set off with a party of 9 men.
		Burke would not wait to rest, and after only one day of rest, set off on the return journey which was made worse by fierce storms which turned the ground to mud.
	davidreilly.com /australian_explorers/burke/burke_n_wills-easier.htm (699 words)

	Barkly, Burke and Wills - Part 5
		Weary of the delay, Burke and Wills, with two assistants, Gray and King, one horse and six camels, set forth on Sunday, the 16th of December, leaving four men, six camels, and twelve horses at the depot in charge of William Brahe, pending the arrival of Wright.
		Wills was the first to succumb, and faced his death with wonderful cheerfulness and serenity.
		Wills was the first to feel the approach of death, and begged of Burke and King to seek for the flfellows as their only chance of salvation by procuring food.
	www.geocities.com /toby_meares/031.htm (2011 words)

	Bulletin - Burke and Wills: an outback tragedy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		She had heard vaguely of the Burke and Wills expedition, and the famously tragic Dig Tree, a big old coolibah on the creek with a few strange markings carved into its trunk that are still visible.
		Burke, a man of an ancient and honourable family with a habit of racking up large gambling debts – and thus easily manipulated – was to be the agent of their aims.
		Burke persuaded Wills and King to follow him on a futile attempt to travel 250km through the desert to the South Australian police outpost of Mt Hopeless, rather than try to follow their old track back to the Darling River.
	bulletin.ninemsn.com.au /bulletin/EdDesk.nsf/0/561eeb20413f1e3eca256b110014ba20?OpenDocument (2095 words)

	Andrew Pattison's Burke & Wills Winery and music festivals
		Andrew Pattison's Burke and Wills Winery and music festivals
		is the website of Andrew Pattison, founder of Melbourne's famous 'eighties music venue The Troubadour, former owner of Lancefield Winery in Victoria's Macedon Ranges, and nowadays owner and winemaker at Burke and Wills Winery in the famous Heathcote wine region.
		From Melbourne via the Tullamarine Freeway, Melbourne Airport, Bulla, Romsey, drive straight through Lancefield continuing north for 2 kms.
	www.wineandmusic.net (140 words)

	History House: Exploring their Way out of a Paper Bag (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Burke also heard that John McDouell Stuart, an experienced explorer, had backing from the South Australian government and was setting out to beat him to the finish line on the north coast.
		Wills saw a tree with an inscription carved into the trunk 'DIG 3 FT. N.W. They dug down and found a chest filled with provisions, and a note from Brahe assuring them that the others were all well.
		Burke had been disgraced in the army for going AWOL and missed a crucial battle in 1848.
	www.historyhouse.com /in_history/burke_wills (1809 words)

	Print Article: Burke and Wills story reopened (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The ill-fated expedition of Burke and Wills is the stuff of legend, but a new book on the sole survivor of the journey seeks to tell it from a different perspective.
		Burke's Soldier is told through the voice of King, set 10 years after the doomed expedition and as he lies dying.
		Mr Attwood said that like Ned Kelly, the story of Burke and Wills had a powerful hold on the national psyche, but unlike the other members of the Kelly gang, King is not a household name.
	www.smh.com.au /cgi-bin/common/popupPrintArticle.pl?path=/articles/2003/04/01/1048962748925.html (370 words)

	Burke and Wills — Terra Incognita
		The Burke and Wills expedition was lavishly funded but it proved unwieldy and was plagued by internal dispute and bad judgment.
		Burke and William Wills, his second-in-command, both perished of starvation on the return journey, along with several other members of the expedition.
		Burke and Wills were buried in an elaborate ceremony that marked Australia’s first state funeral.
	chnm.gmu.edu /worldhistorysources/d/178/whm.html (418 words)

	Burke and Wills
		Burke took a 2 year supply of food, as well as 80 pairs of shoes, beds, hats and buckets, as well as some firewood.
		Wills buried his notebooks and left a note telling where the group were heading, but no one thought to make a sign at the Dig Tree to indicate that they had been there and were still alive.
		Large sums of money were given to the families of Burke and Wills, and a pension was given to King, who did not live very long owing to the ill health caused by the hardships he had endured.
	www.kidcyber.com.au /topics/bwinfo.htm (750 words)

	Burke and Wills
		Burke was chosen to lead the expedition by the Royal Society of Victoria, which hoped to beat Stuart, who was supported by South Australia.
		Burke grew impatient waiting under the coolabahs, and although Wright had not yet returned, on December 16, Burke, Wills, John King and Charlie Gray left Cooper's Creek for their trek to the Gulf of Carpentaria.
		Burke and Wills died of malnutrition in late June 1861, King was cared for by a group of aboriginals until a rescue party found him.
	www.diamantina-tour.com.au /dtc_web_pages/990_tours/burke_wills.html (968 words)

	Remembering the famous Burke and Wills expedition
		One of the great exploring adventures of the 19th century was the Burke and Wills expedition, the first to cross the Australian continent, south to north, from Melbourne to the Gulf of Carpentaria.
		Burke left behind a group commanded by a man named Brahe, with instructions that they should wait for three months, or as long as their stores lasted.
		Burke's group took almost two months to reach the gulf, six months and 1,650 miles after the expedition began.
	www.galwayadvertiser.ie /ent/131197/page4.htm (568 words)

	BURKE and WILLS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Robert O’Hara Burke was born in Ireland 1821 and in 1848 he joined the police force in the mining camps.
		William Wills was born in Totnes England and studied medicine.
		Burke knew there was a police outpost so Burke, Wills, King and Gray set off to the police outpost.
	www.forrestps.act.edu.au /burke__and__wills.htm (253 words)

	Robert O'Hara Burke (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		In 1860 Robert O'Hara Burke and William John Wills led a party of sixteen men from Melbourne on an expedition to cross Australia from south to north.
		Burke and Wills survived in the area for another two months before dying.
		She was performing at Beechworth where Burke was a senior inspector of police.
	www.cap.nsw.edu.au /bb_site_intro/stage3_Modules/overland/burke.html (240 words)

	Burke and Wills
		Burke was to lead the expedition with Wills as surveyor and they took a 2 year supply of food, as well as 80 pairs of shoes, beds, hats and buckets.
		Burke and Wills survived for two months at the site, while King wandered around delerious and was helped by aboriginals.
		There is a monument to Burke at Castlemaine in the goldfields area of Victoria where he was a superintendent of police up until the time he led the expedition.
	www.wilmap.com.au /burkwill.html (377 words)

	Burke and Wills (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Robert O'Hara Burke, a police officer, led an expedition from Melbourne in 1860 with the object of crossing the continent from south to north.
		These courageous explorers, accompanied by two members of the expedition, King and Gray, made a dash for the Gulf of Carpentaria from a depot they had established at Cooper's Creek in Queensland.
		Burke and Wills proceeded ahead of the others and succeeded in reaching the estuary of the Flinders River on the Gulf of Carpentaria.
	gutenberg.net.au /pages/burkeandwills.html (193 words)

	Discoverers Web: Burke and Wills
		Burke was chosen to lead an expedition by the government of Victoria, which hoped to beat Stuart, who was supported by South Australia.
		Burke split up the group, eight men among which Burke himself would push on to Cooper's Creek, while the rest would remain in Menindee.
		Burke and Wills died of starvation in late June 1861, King was cared for by a group of aboriginals until a rescue party found him.
	www.win.tue.nl /~engels/discovery/burke.html (682 words)

	Launch of Burke and Wills - From Melbourne to Myth
		Speech by Senator Rod Kemp at the launch of Burke and Wills - From Melbourne to Myth at the National Library of Australia, 26 March 2002.
		The Burke and Wills story is one of the iconic tales of Australian history.
		I understand that even before Burke and Wills took a single step outside Melbourne in August of 1860 they had been sketched, photographed and engraved - already a legend in the making.
	www.dcita.gov.au /Article/0,,0_5-2_4009-4_103950,00.html (542 words)

	Burke and Wills Hotel [Building Profile - Walking Melbourne]
		The Burke and Wills hotel was an eclectic design that featured a corner tower and turret with an undulating faceted facade.
		The grand old Burke and Wills hotel was demolished in 1927 to make way for the T&G tower, a most worthy substitution.
		This is despite the fact that it will soon be surpassed in height by under construction Eureka.
	www.walkingmelbourne.com /building_profile.php?ID=315 (643 words)

	MTV.com - Movies - Burke and Wills (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Based on a true story, this film tells the tale of Robert O'Hara Burke (Jack Thompson) and William John Wills (Nigel Havers), who in 1860 set forth to create the first accurate maps of the interior region of the Australian continent.
		However, while fate was cruel to Burke and Wills, history was kind, and their story is still taught in every Australian classroom.
		Graeme Clifford's biopic was praised for its striking visuals and realistic portrayal of Burke and Wills' difficult journey.
	www.mtv.com /movies/movie/4866/plot.jhtml (207 words)

	Desert and Drought: Burke and Wills
		Explorers, and in particular Robert O’Hara Burke and William John Wills who, with other members of the Victorian Exploring Expedition, died during their attempt to cross the Australian continent in 1861, remained uppermost in Sidney Nolan’s mind during his own extensive outback journey.
		Nolan’s Burke and Wills series evolved simultaneously with his pure landscape subjects, however from May to June 1950, he completed his most ambitious and largest paintings on the theme.
		Nolan’s five definitive subjects that were shown in June 1950 under the heading, ‘Notes for the Burke and Wills Series’, are reunited for the first time in the present exhibition (cats.
	www.ngv.vic.gov.au /desertanddrought/bur.shtml (172 words)

	BURKE AND WILLS: Australian Explorers - EnchantedLearning.com
		Burke and Wills were inexperienced explorers; Burke was a police investigator and Wills was a surveyor and meteorologist.
		Burke, Wills, and King were very weak when they returned to the camp at Cooper's Creek on April 21, 1861.
		Burke, Wills, and King again wandered off, but Wills became weak, so they left him with some of the food.
	www.zoomwhales.com /explorers/page/b/burkewills.shtml (445 words)

	Burke and Wills Expedition -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia
		Second in command was William John Wills, an Englishman whose family had settled in Melbourne.
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		Wills must ordinarily be in writing, but oral wills are accepted in some places because of emergency situations such as imminent danger of death.
	www.britannica.com /ebi/article-9273408?tocId=9273408 (810 words)

	Australian Wills Family Tree - W.J.Wills (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Wills would have made a much better leader than Burke.
		When Burke quarrelled with his second-in-command, he appointed Wills as second-in-command.
		At 2-3 The Plains, Totnes is the Wills Café which is next door to the Wills restaurant,
	users.tpg.com.au /sharenet/fam/burkewills.html (215 words)

	AllRefer.com - Robert O'Hara Burke (Australian And New Zealand History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		In 1860, with W. Wills and eight other whites, he left Menindee, on the Darling River, to cross the continent.
		On the return journey both Burke and Wills died from famine and exposure.
		Although the geographical achievements of the expedition itself were few, rescue parties seeking it added much to the knowledge of central Australia.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/E/E-Burke-Ro.html (258 words)

	Burke and Wills - Stormfront White Nationalist Community (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		This is one hell of a movie, with scenes that will haunt you for days.
		It was set in Australia circa 1860 and is based on the tragic, true story of explorers Robert O'Hara Burke (Irish) and William John Wills (British).
		Burke was determined to be the first white man to cross the continent of Australia, from the south coast to the north.
	www.stormfront.org /forum/showthread.php?t=96041 (198 words)

	nicolekidmanunited.com NKU Wills and Burke (1985)
		The explorers Burke and Wills are generally regarded as heros in Australian folklore.
		This film attempts to reduce their hero status a little by poking some fun.
		Right: A painting of the Burke and Wills expedition by famous Australian painter Sidney Nolan.
	www.nicolekidmanunited.com /NicoleKidmanFilmography/filmWillsAndBurke1985.html (160 words)

	AMCTV.com SHOW - Burke and Wills
		This historical drama chronicles the real-life 1860 south-to-north expedition across Australia by a group of adventurers who want to become the first white men to cross the continent.
		The men are led by Robert Burke (Jack Thompson), an Irish cop and William Wills (Nigel Havers), an Englishman.
		Burke, who is rash and temperamental, clashes with Wills, who is more circumspect.
	www.amctv.com /show/detail?CID=58214-1-1 (118 words)

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