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    Robert O'Hara Burke (6 May 1821 – c. 28 June 1861) was an Irish soldier and police officer who achieved fame as an Australian explorer. He was the leader...
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    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...
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    escapades were mockingly reported in the local paper. Robert O'Hara Burke, leader of the ill-fated Burke and Wills expedition was stationed in Beechworth as...
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  • The film is based on the ill-fated Burke and Wills expedition across Australia. The film follows Robert O'Hara Burke and William John Wills in their crossing...
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  • The Division of Burke was an Australian Electoral Division in Victoria. The division was named after Robert O'Hara Burke, an explorer who led the Victorian...
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  • attempting to assassinate local landlord James Hardiman Burke, father of explorer Robert O'Hara Burke, of St Clerans, Craughwell, County Galway, even though...
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  • created in 1969 and abolished in 2004. The division was named after Robert O'Hara Burke, an explorer who led the Victorian expedition in 1860, the first to cross...
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  • broadcaster. Robert O'Hara Burke, Australian explorer Burke Island, an island in the Amundsen Sea Burke Developmental Road, a road in Queensland Burke, Wills...
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  • philanthropist Robert E. Burke (1847–1901), U.S. Representative from Texas Robert O'Hara Burke (1821–1861), Australian explorer Robert Burke, in list of...
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    28 February 2003. The Burke and Wills Dig Tree on the banks of Cooper's Creek is associated with explorers Robert O'Hara Burke and William John Wills...
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    William John Wills (category Burke and Wills expedition)
    Victoria to the Gulf of Carpentaria. He and the expedition leader Robert O'Hara Burke both died of exhaustion on the expedition's return journey. William...
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  • Africa 1851–1873 David Livingstone The Burke and Wills expedition (Central Australia) 1860–1861 Robert O'Hara Burke and William John Wills Exploration of...
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  • expedition. It opened a week before Burke & Wills, a serious drama about the expedition. In 1860, Robert O'Hara Burke and William John Wills are chosen...
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  • Robert O'Hara Burke (1820–1861), Irish soldier, policeman and explorer Pat O'Hara Wood (1891–1961), Australian tennis player Phi Phi O'Hara (born 1985)...
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    John King (explorer) (category Burke and Wills expedition)
    constructed stables at Royal Park whence the Expedition had left. Robert O'Hara Burke was appointed leader of the Victorian Exploring Expedition with Landells...
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  • murder of the young duke Arthur of Brittany Robert O'Hara Burke 1821–1861  United Kingdom Leader of the Burke and Wills expedition, which was the first...
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    explored by the European settlers and was unknown to them. In 1860–61, Robert O'Hara Burke and William John Wills led the expedition of 19 men with that intention...
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    accompanied United States Navy Commander Robert Peary on his attempts to reach the North Pole Robert O'Hara Burke (1821–1861), Irish soldier and police officer...
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    Yosemite Valley Johann Ludwig Burckhardt Swiss 19th Middle East, Sudan Robert O'Hara Burke Irish 19th Australia Frederick Russell Burnham American 19th/20th...
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    Texas Robert O'Hara Burke (1821–1861), Australian explorer Robert H. Burke (1922–2003), American politician in California Robert P. Burke (born 1961),...
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    Nolan Barry Fitzgerald Robert O'Hara Burke W. T. Cosgrave John F. Kennedy 1989 Seán T. O'Kelly Jawaharlal Nehru Margaret Burke Sheridan 1990 Michael Collins...
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    first overland expedition to reach the Gulf was the Burke and Wills expedition, led by Robert O'Hara Burke and William John Wills which left Melbourne, Victoria...
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  • for a crossing from Otago to the West Coast. It is named for Robert O'Hara Burke of the Burke and Wills expedition. The nearby Wills River is named for William...
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    The Burke River is an ephemeral river in Central West Queensland, Australia. The river was named in memory of Robert O'Hara Burke of the Burke and Wills...
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  • Eyre, Journals Of Expeditions Of Discovery Into Central Australia) Robert O'Hara Burke tried several times to reach this outpost in 1861 when he became...
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    Boulia lies on the Burke River, which was named after the explorer Robert O'Hara Burke who passed through the area with the Burke and Wills expedition...
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    within the party and the deputy-leader George Landells resigned. Robert O'Hara Burke split the party, heading north to Cooper Creek with half the men...
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    at sea. The tomb of famous Australian explorers Robert O'Hara Burke and William John Wills (see Burke and Wills expedition) is also located in the cemetery...
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    Mitchell, Sir Charles MacMahon and Frederick Standish; Explorer Robert O'Hara Burke; Artists Sir Arthur Streeton, Sir Daryl Lindsay and Sir William Dargie...
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    expeditions. Perhaps the most famous of these was the Burke and Wills expedition led by Robert O'Hara Burke and William John Wills who in 1860–61 led a well...
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