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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.

Museum Victoria

White-winged fairy wren collected by Alfred William Howitt

Courtesy of Musem Victoria, photo: Michelle McFarlane

 

Museum Victoria holds more than twenty bird specimens collected by Howitt on his relief expeditions to Cooper's Creek.

 

Museum Victoria, Melbourne
Location: 11 Nicholson Street, Carlton
Telephone: 13 11 02
Web enquiries: www.museumvictoria.com.au/contactus
Web: www.museumvictoria.vic.gov.au