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Robert O'Hara Burke
William John Wills
The Expedition
Relief Expeditions
Miscellaneous
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Burke's nationality
What is British
100
Wills nationality?
What is British
100
another name for the Burke and Wills Expedition
What is the Victorian Exploring Expedition
100
The official name and acronym for the South African's government relief expedition?
What is The South Australian Burke Relief Expedition (SABRE).
100
The city where the expedition left from
What is Melbourne
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Burke's assigned job/position during the expedition?
What is the leader of the expedition
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date when Wills migrated to Australia?
What is 3 January 1853
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the total number of men in the initial expedition party?
What is 19 men
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The name of the leader of the South African Government's relief expedition?
What is John McKinlay
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The southernmost point reached by the expedition
What is the Gulf of Carpenteria
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the date when Burke migrated to Australia?
What is 1853
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Wills appointed job in the expedition party?
What is third-in-command, surveyor, astronomical and meteorological observer
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The date when the expedition left Melbourne?
What is Monday, 20 August 1860
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The Exploration Committee's relief expedition leaders
What is William Landsborough and Frederick Walker
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The first Europeans to cross Australia from South to North?
What is Burke and Wills
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the place of Burke's death?
What is Burke's Waterhole on Cooper Creek in South Australia.
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the reason for Wills death?
What is exhaustion and starvation
400
The goal of the expedition
What is to cross Australia from south to north, finding a route across the continent from the settled areas of Victoria to the Gulf of Carpentaria.
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The total number of relief expeditions
What is four relief expeditions
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The people that helped John King, the only survivor of the expedition?
What is the aborigines
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2 places named after Burke?
What is Burketown, Queensland. Burke River in western Queensland.[3] O'Haras Gap, Selwyn Ranges, Queensland. Cloncurry, Burke named the Cloncurry River after his cousin, Elizabeth Kirwan, who had married Lord Cloncurry. Lady Cloncurry was the daughter of Burke's paternal Aunt Penelope and her husband John Kirwan.
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Wills occupation prior to the expedition
What is British surveyor
500
The number of deaths in the party?
What is seven people
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The leader of the Queensland relief expedition?
What is William Landsborough
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Burke's two previous professions prior to the expedition?
What is policeman and army officer