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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.

Public Record Office Victoria

Detail of map of Burke and Wills' route from Cooper's Creek to Carpentaria.

VPRS 8168/P2 unit 871

Reproduced with the permission of the Keeper of Public Records, PROV

 

Map of the expedition route

The maps which Wills made on the expedition were brought back to Melbourne in 1861 and used to make a composite map of the route between Cooper's Creek and the Gulf of Carpentaria. 

PROV also holds documentary material such as correspondence with the Chief Secretary about the financing of the expedition, contracts for the purchase of camels, and the log of the government ship Victoria, sent to look for the explorers in Northern Queensland.

See PROV's website about their Burke and Wills holdings.

 

Public Records Office Victoria

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