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1862 - The Route of Burke and Wills across the Continent of Australia from Cooper's Creek to the Gulf of Carpentaria

Map maker	Size	Map ID	Condition
Andrew Garran	400 x 300 mm	D1 / M405 / I378	One small repair and small spot of foxing. Otherwise very good and clean.

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The expedition of Burke and Wills is one of Australia's most unfortunate. Robert Burke and William Wills left Melbourne on August 20 1860 with horses and camels brought from India. Together with Burke and Wills was William Brahe, John King and Charles Gray. The expedition was plagued with bad luck due in part perhaps to the lack of experience of the explorers. After almost reaching the Gulf of Carpentaria at the mouth of the Flinders River Burke, Wills and King returned south towards Coopers Creek where Brahe and supplies were waiting. In what the returning explorers thought would take 5 weeks it instead took 10 with the party arriving to Coopers Creek only a day after Brahe had left.

This map is included on the February 8th 1862 edition of the Illustrated London News. The article reads "Full details of the disastrous though glorious exploring expedition in Australia under the direction of Burke and Wills, accompanied by several Illustrations, were contained in our last Number (edition)".

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