Arrival of Burke & Wills at Flinders River, 1862. The Burke and Wills expedition was an Australian exploration expedition in 1860–61 led by Robert O'Hara Burke and William John Wills of 19 men with the objective of crossing Australia from Melbourne in the south, to the Gulf of Carpentaria in the north, a distance of around 3,250 kilometres (approximately 2,000 miles).[1] At that time most of the inland of Australia had not been explored by non-Indigenous people and was largely unknown to the European settlers.

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Edward Jukes Greig, Arrival of Burke & Wills at Flinders River, 1862. The Burke and Wills expedition was an Australian exploration expedition in 1860–61 led by Robert O'Hara Burke and William John Wills of 19 men with the objective of crossing Australia from Melbourne in the south, to the Gulf of Carpentaria in the north, a distance of around 3,250 kilometres (approximately 2,000 miles). At that time most of the inland of Australia had not been explored by non-Indigenous people and was largely unknown to the European settlers. Painting by Edward Jukes Greig

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