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Early explorers - Australia's Culture Portal

J. C. Armytage, Return of Burke and Wills to Coopers Creek, engraving, in Australia by Edwin Carton Booth, opp. Explorers set out to discover rivers and land suitable for agriculture as well as to survey the land. A major expedition usually produced a p...

The Overland Telegraph - Australia's Culture Portal

Jack Laver, Bob Carew up a pole of the Overland Telegraph Line, 1921. Image courtesy of the State Library of South Australia: b2100793. Image courtesy of the State Library of South Australia: B 6793....

Afghan cameleers in Australia - Australia's Culture Portal

The introduction of camels and the so-called 'Afghan' cameleers proved to be a turning point in the exploration and development of the Australian interior. Image courtesy of the State Library of South Australia: B 14739. Image courtesy of the State Libra...

Angry Penguin painters - Australia's Culture Portal

Barbara Tucker, Albert Tucker, Arthur Boyd and Sidney Nolan, Hurstbridge, c. The Angry Penguin painters are considered to be the major figures of a modernist movement in Australian art, based in Melbourne, which has determined and shaped Australian conte...

ANZAC Day - Australia's Culture Portal

On 25 April every year, Australians commemorate ANZAC Day. During the Second World War, ANZAC Day became a day on which the lives of all Australians lost in war time were remembered. Commemorative services are held at dawn on 25 April, the time of the o...

Australian food and drink - Australia's Culture Portal

Before white settlement, Aboriginal people survived off the native plants and animals of the Australian environment for thousands of years. Bush foods such as berries, roots and nectars were a vital part of the aboriginal diet in many areas. In the late...

Aboriginal trackers - Australia's Culture Portal

With mounting evidence and stories circulating about their seemingly miraculous ability to find people, Aboriginal trackers' abilities became legendary in the minds of white Australians. Paul Raffaele, Aboriginal tracker Teddy Egan and son. The Australi...

Margaret Preston - Australia's Culture Portal

Margaret Preston was an Australian painter and printmaker who was a leading example of early Australian modernism. Her essays and articles were published in Australian journals including Art in Australia , Undergrowth, Jindyworobak Review and Australia N...

Australian sculpture - Australia's Culture Portal

Sculpture is part of many everyday Australian places including streets, public squares, buildings, parks and gardens. The influence of sculpture is obvious in the overall design of some notable Australian buildings such as Federation Square and The Austr...

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Burke and Wills - Terra Incognita   (more info)

In 1860, Burke and Wills set out from Melbourne to travel the length of the Australian continent to the Gulf of Carpentaria. On this website you can follow this Expedition's journey through the land of the Australian interior which was, at that time, unkn

Burke & Wills Web   (more info)

Burke and Wills Web is an historical research resource based on the records of Robert O'Hara Burke and William John Wills of the Victorian Exploring Expedition 1860-1, the first explorers who travelled from Melbourne to the Gulf of Carpentaria.

The Diary of William John Wills   (more info)

An online exhibition providing a transcript of the diary kept by William John Wills from 23 April to 28 June 1861. The Burke and Wills Expedition was significant because it was the first to cross the continent from south to north. It was also notorious be

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Retracing Burke and Wills Route   (website Burke & Wills Web )

He marked and mapped Wills' grave, Burke's grave and the Dig Tree, as well as identifying several of Burke's camps between Menindee and the Cooper. Dig Tree John McKinlay also visited the graves of Burke and Wills and added his blaze to that of Howitts a...

Burke & Wills Expedition : Summary   (website Burke & Wills Web )

Burke, Wills and King follow the Cooper downstream towards Mt Hopeless in South Australia. Burke, Wills and King alone at Coopers Creek Soon after leaving the Dig Tree the two remaining camels, Rajah and Landa died. The Burke & Wills Historical Society ...

National Museum of Australia - Burke and Wills collection   (website National Museum of Australia (NMA) )

The National Museum of Australia has a growing collection of objects related to the Burke and Wills expedition. The Victorian Exploring Expedition, usually known as the Burke and Wills expedition, remains one of the most celebrated journeys of the 'heroic...

The Wacky World of Wills & Burke: Movie (1985)   (website Burke & Wills Web )

It was released as Wills & Burke and then retitled The Wacky World of Wills & Burke for Australian audiences and Wills & Burke : The Untold Story for US audiences. By Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide; This Australian lampoon of historical epics stars Kim Gyn...

Burke & Wills: Movie - Reviews   (website Burke & Wills Web )

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. This is the story of...

Burke & Wills Grave   (website Burke & Wills Web )

Burke crossed continent Returned to Cooper's Creek with Wills and King and two camels Burke and Wills died on or about twenty eighth June. This proposal received unanimous support in the Government and the Exploration Committee resolved that Howitt be eng...

With Burke & Wills:   (website Burke & Wills Web )

The only survivor of the Burke and Wills expedition - which in achieving a record was yet a monument of failure - is Mr William BrahÚ, now living near the Elsternwick beach. BrahÚ had cut the letters DIG and the date on a tree, but neither Burke nor Will...

Recent Maps of Burke and Wills Route   (website Burke & Wills Web )

Sunmap is the mapping arm of the Queensland Department of Natural Resources and Water, (formerly the Department of Lands (Division of Information); Department of Lands (Department of Geographic Information); Department of Mapping and Surveying). Image:Bu...