Burke and Wills expedition
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title:
Burke and Wills expedition
text:
The Burke and Wills expedition was organised by the Royal Society of Victoria (RSV) in Australia in 1860–61. It initially consisted of nineteen men led by Robert O'Hara Burke, with William John Wills being a deputy commander. Its objective was the crossing of Australia from Melbourne in the south to the Gulf of Carpentaria in the north, a distance of around 3,250 kilometres. At that time most of the inland of Australia had not been explored by non-Indigenous people and was largely unknown to Eur
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Australian exploration expedition (1860–61)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burke_and_Wills_expedition
date created:
2003-08-10T09:40:25Z
date modified:
2024-09-06T22:13:25Z
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