biography
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Burke, Robert O'Hara
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| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1820–61)
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| biography:
| Traveller and explorer of Australia, born in St Clerans, Co Galway, W Ireland. He studied in Belgium, served in the Austrian army (1840), joined the Irish constabulary (1848), and emigrated to Australia in 1853. As leader of the Burke and Wills expedition (1860), he was one of the first white men to cross the Australian continent from S to N. Both Burke and Wills died of starvation on the return journey. |
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