Who went on the burke and wills expedition?

Question

and any other relevent information about the explorers and the trip

Answer 1

burke and wills.

Answer 2

You've asked this a number of times already.

I hope this helps.

The websites below have all the information you request.

The Burke & Wills Expedition was originally called the Victorian Exploring Expedition.

http://www.burkeandwills.net.au/General/...

The Diary of John William Wills

http://www.nla.gov.au/epubs/wills/index....

Burke and Wills expedition 1860

http://www.kidcyber.com.au/topics/bwinfo...

Robert O'Hara Burke (1821 - 1861)

http://www.kidcyber.com.au/topics/bwburk...

William John Wills (1834 -1861)

http://www.kidcyber.com.au/topics/bwwill...

Answer 3

The expedition left Melbourne on 20 August 1860 with a total of 19 men, 27 camels and 23 horses. They reached Menindee on 23 September 1860 where several people resigned, including the second-in-command, George James Landells and the medical officer, Dr. Hermann Beckler.

Coopers Creek, 400 miles further on, was reached on 11 November 1860 by the advanced group, the remainder being intended to catch up. After a break, Burke decided to make a dash to the Gulf of Carpentaria, leaving on 16 December 1860. William Brahe was left in charge of the remaining party. The small team of Burke, William Wills, John King and Charley Gray reached the mangroves on the estuary of the Flinders River, near where the town of Normanton now stands, on 9 February 1861. Flooding rains and swamps meant they never saw open ocean.

Answer 4

Burke and Wills attempted the first south-north crossing of Australia.

Robert O'Hara Burke, William Wills, John King and Charley Gray and others. However these four were the main party to push on from Menindee in an effort to try and reach the Gulf of Carpentaria.

The majority of the party were to remain in at  Coopers Creek north of Menindee with the majority of the stores.

The north party, half-starved reached the Gulf of Carpentaria, but on the return Gray died and they spent a day burying him.

The base group had already waited well past the due return date when they left back south for Melbourne. That very afternoon Burke, Wills and King made it to the major base only to find no one there. Some supplies had been left buried near a tree (with a carved message on it simply saying "Dig").

Burke, Wills and King attempted to make it back to Menindee but Burke and Wills died of starvation. King nearly died but was taken in by a local Aboriginal tribe who looked after him until another party came up from Melbourne, searching for Burke and Wills.