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Across Australia: In the Tracks of Burke and Wills is a 1915 Australian documentary film by Francis Birtles about his 1915 expedition to recreate the Burke and Wills Expedition. [1] [2] Birtles was accompanied by his dog Wowser. [3] The film was released in cinemas in late 1915. [4] [5]
Burke & Wills performed disappointingly, grossing $1,567,000 at the box office in Australia. [6] Jonathan Chissick later said "people in Australia were just not interested in seeing a picture about these two guys dying in the desert." [7] The poor box office was also blamed on the poor reviews of Wills & Burke that was released at the same time ...
The five Burke and Wills Expedition Sites (the Dig Tree and Fort Wills Site, Burke's Tree, Wills' Site, King's Site and Howitt's Site) have outstanding heritage value to the nation as the setting for the key events associated with the Burke and Wills Expedition, which was a defining moment in Australia's cultural history.
Later that day, Burke, Wills and King returned from the Gulf to find the Depôt deserted. 23 April 1861. Burke, Wills and King followed the Cooper downstream heading towards Mount Hopeless in South Australia. 7 May 1861. The last camel, Rajah, died. The men cannot carry enough supplies to leave the creek. 8 May 1861.
Across Australia: In the Tracks of Burke and Wills; B. Burke & Wills; ... A Romance of the Burke and Wills Expedition of 1860; W. Wills & Burke This page was ...
John McKinlay (26 August 1819 – 31 December 1872) [1] was a Scottish-born Australian explorer and cattle grazier, and leader of the South Australian Burke Relief Expedition - one of the search parties for the Burke and Wills expedition. McKinlay was also a member of Charles Sturt's Central Exploring Expedition from 1844-1845. [2]
Dig is a 1937 non-fiction book about the Burke and Wills Expedition by Frank Clune. [1] [2] It was one of Clune's best known and most popular works. The book was also known as Dig: a drama of central Australia.
The film received negative reviews and was not a success at the box office, closing after just three weeks with a gross of A$54,000 in Australia [5] [6] [7] on a A$1.75 million budget. [8] Due to opening in advance of Burke & Wills, some critics believed that the film was a parody of Burke & Wills but Weis claimed that this was not his ...