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	Burke and Wills expedition - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In 1860-61 Robert O'Hara Burke and William John Wills led an expedition of 19 men with the intention of crossing Australia from Melbourne in the south to the Gulf of Carpentaria in the north, a distance of around 2,800 kilometres (≈1,750 miles).
		Burke was an Irish-born ex-officer with the Austrian army, and later became police superintendent with virtually no skills in bushcraft.
		Burke was concerned Stuart might beat him to the north coast and he soon grew impatient with their slow progress.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Burke_and_Wills_expedition (3465 words)

	Robert O'Hara Burke - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		He was the leader of the ill-fated Burke and Wills expedition, which was the first expedition to cross Australia from south to north, finding a route across the continent from the settled areas of Victoria to the Gulf of Carpentaria.
		The expedition party was well-equipped, but Burke was not experienced in bushcraft and his leadership is often blamed for the failure of the project and deaths of seven people in the party.
		In May 1860, Burke was appointed to lead the Victorian Exploring Expedition with William John Wills as surveyor and astronomical observer.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Robert_O'Hara_Burke (1152 words)

	Australian Discovery, edited by Ernest Scott
		Burke seeing him run away with it followed him with his revolver and fired over his head, and upon this the native dropt the oilcloth; while he was away, the other fls invited me away to a waterhole to eat fish, but I declined to do so as Mr.
		Burke (as I was doing) that he would strike me; upon this I got them all in front of the gunyah and fired a revolver over their heads, but they did not seem at all afraid until I got out the gun, when they all ran away.
		Burke said we should halt for the night; but as the place was close to a large sheet of water, and exposed to the wind, I prevailed on him to go a little further, to the next reach of water, where we camped.
	gutenberg.net.au /ausdisc/ausdisc2-16.html (10701 words)

	Germans and the Burke & Wills Expedition
		One of the 15 applicants for the position of expedition leader was Gustavus Ferdinand von Tempsky, a Prussian born in an aristocratic family at Braunsberg in 1828.
		Burke had the advantage of the support of J.V.A. Bruce, a Victorian tycoon and member of the Royal Society, who was used to getting his way and did a lot a wheeling and dealing behind the scenes to get votes for Burke.
		Burke gave Becker an unfair amount of hard physical work in an attempt to make him quit, despite the fact that Becker had been appointed to the expedition as a scientific officer.
	www.teachers.ash.org.au /dnutting/germanaustralia/e/burwills.htm (1771 words)

	Guide to the Papers of Burke and Wills: MS 30
		The diary kept by William John Wills from 23 April to 26 June 1861 was acquired by the National Library in 1909, along with the diary kept by Robert O'Hara Burke from 16 December 1860 to 20 January 1861.
		The Burke and Wills Expedition, also known as the Victorian or the Australian Exploring Expedition, was significant because it was the first to cross the continent from south to north.
		Burke and Wills starved to death in tragic circumstances on the banks of Cooper's Creek.
	nla.gov.au /nla.ms-ms30 (1612 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.
	www.davidreilly.com /australian_explorers/burke/burke_n_wills-easier.htm (699 words)

	William John Wills (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		When Burke asked him to join the expedition Wills' job was to be the surveyor, meteorologist and astronomer.
		Wills became second-in-command of the expedition after Burke had quarreled and dismissed George Landells from that position.
		Wills was a serious, intelligent and loyal man who did his job well, keeping an accurate record of the expedition and a diary from which much was learned about the fatal journey.
	www.kidcyber.com.au /topics/bwwillsbio.htm (166 words)

	The History of Australian Exploration by Ernest Favenc
		The details connected with the rescue of John King, the sole survivor of the Burke and Wills Expedition, have, strangely enough, never yet found their way into print, owing to a series of minor accidents, into the particulars of which it is not necessary to enter here.
		Burke threatened him and boxed his ears for this, and when he turned in one night, about two days before we expected to reach the depôt, he said he felt he would not live till morning, and, sure enough, he didn't.
		Burke said he was dying, and told me not to try and bury him or cover up his body in any way, but just put his pistol in his right hand.
	etext.library.adelaide.edu.au /pgaus/ausexplore/ausexpl3-app12.html (2562 words)

	History House: Exploring their Way out of a Paper Bag
		The expedition party was rounded out by gentlemen who had never seen a day of the backcountry in their lives; some had mates on the committee, another secured his position by purchasing the necessary camels.
		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.
	www.historyhouse.com /in_history/burke_wills (1809 words)

	Bulletin - Burke and Wills: an outback tragedy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		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 (2129 words)

	Dorseyland :: Across Australia with Burke and Wills :: June :: 2006 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Here Burke and Wills organised their supplies for a trip into the unknown, and for years afterward visitors would come to see their room and the arrow they supposedly carved in the door post indicating the direction they were headed next.
		Burke and his companions were lucky in their choice of route, and in the weather – the rains were good, and fresh water was abundant.
		Burke and Wills were the first Europeans seen here, their visit on January 22 marked by a monument at the side of the Flinders Highway between Cloncurry and Duchess.
	dorseyland.blogsome.com /2006/06/02/across-australia-with-burke-and-wills (9673 words)

	Burke and Wills Web
		In 1863 the Honorary Secretary of the Exploration Committee was compiling the papers relating to the Burke and Wills Expedition.
		Burke and Wills Web is an independently operated historical research resource; designed, maintained and funded by Dave Phoenix, an historian and postgraduate research student at James Cook University.
		The webmaster is also Vice-President of The Burke and Wills Historical Society, however all views and opinions expressed here at Burke and Wills Web are those of the webmaster and may not necessarily reflect those of the Society.
	www.burkeandwills.net.au (541 words)

	Burke and Wills (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The Burke and Wills expedition was the most costly of its time in terms of money spent (£60,000) and lives lost (seven).
		Burke divided the party at both places, taking Wills, John King and Charles Gray on the final stage to the Gulf of Carpentaria, which they reached in February, 1861.
		Burke and Wills were too weak to travel far and both died.
	etext.library.adelaide.edu.au /pgaus/pages/burkeandwills.html (230 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 (447 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
		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)

	Nutrition, starvation and poisoning
		The explorers were certainly willing to try bush tucker, but their attempts to get it were not always successful.
		The result of ingesting thiaminase is thiamine deficiency, which undoubtedly contributed to the deaths of Burke and Wills.
		William Strutt was careful to include a patch of it in his drawing of the death of Burke, and Charles Summers worked it into the floral border on his monument to the explorers.
	victoria.slv.vic.gov.au /burkeandwills/expedition/food.html (510 words)

	The Dig Tree
		Burke persuaded them that since they and the camels were all done in it was futile to try to follow.
		Burke should never have split up his team and should have had clearer, written instructions about what was to happen at the base camp.
		Burke's rival, Sturt, on one expedition left explicit instructions that if dire circumstances neccessitated abandoning the camp, the men had to leave clear directions about the site of a new camp buried in a bottle.
	www.outbackonline.net /digtree/dig_activity10.htm (1631 words)

	The Dig Tree quiz -- free game
		On December 27, Burke and Wills hit the jackpot when they came across a river, part of the Georgina River system, that would take them almost directly north to the coast.
		True or False: On January 30, 1861, Burke and Wills reached the east-west track crossed by August Gregory in 1856, thereby fulfilling the official responsibility of the expedition.
		Burke and Wills reached the Gulf of Carpentaria, and gazed upon the ocean and swim in its water.
	www.funtrivia.com /playquiz.cfm?qid=172247 (582 words)

	You may eat your carrots raw, but don't eat raw nardoo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Burke accused Landells, his deputy, of drinking the rum which was being carried to prevent scurvy among the camels.
		Burke, Wills and King were on a low thiamin diet, no meat, no nuts, only an occasional fish.
		The Burke and Wills expedition cost the enormous sum of 20,000 pounds and the lives of six men.
	members.optusnet.com.au /scottsofta/Stories/rawvegetables.htm (442 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.
		Wills and King wanted to try to overtake Brahe, who was only miles away from them, but Burke decided against it.
		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)

	f0xxyfase - WhitePage (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The Victorian Explorating Expedition attracted applications from a wide range of men interested in adventure and the chance to be part of a large and prestigious journey of exploration.
		Burke's appointment as leader of the expedition was not a unanimous decision and, like all the senior appointments, owed as much to personal patronage and influence as to individual ability.
		Wills was born at Totnes in the English county of Devon and came to Australia in 1853 with his father and brother.
	whitepage.com.au /f0xxy (810 words)

	Burke and Wills: the myth worth bottling - Opinion - theage.com.au
		The most intriguing aspect of the bottle is a pale, oval section of its dark stopper suggesting it had been partly worn down by continual rubbing against a belt or strap while its owner walked and walked and walked.
		And it's less kitsch than other relics of the expedition: a preserved hoof of Burke's horse, Billy (eaten when the going got tough); an inkstand made from a hacked-off section of the famous "Dig Tree"; a map of the journey mounted on an emu egg.
		The story of Burke and Wills is one of the earliest, and most shameless, examples of spin.
	www.theage.com.au /news/opinion/burke-and-wills-the-myth-worth-bottling/2005/11/30/1133311100123.html (794 words)

	Frederick Walker - An Australian Pioneer
		In August of 1861 fears had grown for the safety of the Burke and Wills expedition and Walker was sent at the insistence of the Royal Society of Victoria to search for the ill-fated expedition.
		Walker did not find Burke and Wills but he did find Camp 119, the last Burke and Wills camp before they turned south on their return journey.
		The entry in the expedition's logbook recorded the passing of a pioneer of the gulf: 'as soon as the horses were brought up and a couple saddled Perrier and Ewan were starting for the doctor of the Leichhardt search expedition which was camped about six miles off.
	www.burkeshirecouncil.com /walker.htm (625 words)

	Burke and Wills
		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 (204 words)

	VK4
		From this point Burke, Wills, King and Gray made a dash to the Gulf of Carpenteria and then returned (without Gray), only to find that the base camp had departed for the Menindee Lakes (about 700 Kms to the south) earlier that day.
		Burke and Wills died after months of seeking a route out of the region and King survived only with the help of the local Aborigines
		The Burke and Wills expedition can be studied in "Coopers's Creek" by Alan Moorehead.
	www.qsl.net /vk3cat/VK4/vk4.html (354 words)

	nicolekidmanunited.com NKU Wills and Burke (1985)
		The explorers Burke and Wills are generally regarded as heros in Australian folklore.
		The real expedition set out to cross the harsh interior of Australia from the Southern coast (Melbourne) to the Northern coast (Gulf of Carpenteria).
		It was the biggest and most expensive expedition in Australia's history.
	www.nicolekidmanunited.com /NicoleKidmanFilmography/filmWillsAndBurke1985.html (160 words)

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