BURKE AND WHO?
Jan 29, 2020
3 minutes
Words and Pics KATH HEIMAN
FOR THOSE OF US who spend time in Australia’s vast interior, it’s a familiar story.
Burke, Wills and King return to the Dig Tree at Cooper Creek just hours after the Depot Party has departed. There, the creek is alive with fish, mussels and yabbies; the trees are full of waterbirds like ducks and pelicans; and the creek bank is home to snakes, lizards, small marsupials and insects. Yet, Burke and Wills starve to death.
Weakened by their return journey from the Gulf, and with little
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