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Guide to Resources
Many different institutions hold some part of the Expedition’s legacy: this guide links you to documents, artefacts and natural history specimens spread far and wide.
Terra Incognita
From Melbourne, Burke and Wills set out into terra incognita – the unknown land. Here is their story, told through the State Library’s collection of original documents and artefacts.
Newspaper Images
Caricature of Burke cooking a Christmas pudding
Humorous article imagining how the expedition party might be spending Christmas
The Great Australian Exploration Race
Caricature of Burke and John MacDouall Stuart
Caricature of an explorer
Ludwig Becker aboard a camel