This contrasts with the ill-fated Burke and Wills expedition in 1860 – 61 which was much better funded, but resulted in the deaths of three of the members of the transcontinental party.

Positive accounts of Aboriginal customs and encounters are also recorded in the journals of early European explorers, who often relied on Aboriginal guides and assistance: Charles Sturt employed Aboriginal envoys to explore the Murray-Darling ; the lone survivor of the Burke and Wills expedition was nursed by local Aborigines, and the famous Aboriginal explorer Jackey Jackey loyally accompanied his ill-fated friend Edmund Kennedy to Cape York.

William John Wills, second-in-command of the Burke and Wills expedition worked under Neumayer at the Flagstaff Observatory until the expedition departed from Melbourne on 20 August 1860.

He remained with Burke and Wills as far as the Darling River at Bilbarka, before returning to the settled districts of Victoria.

* Burke & Wills Web A comprehensive website containing many of the historical documents relating to the Burke & Wills Expedition.

* The Burke & Wills Historical Society The Burke & Wills Historical Society.

The easiest way to get to the park is via the Burke & Wills Roadhouse.

Burke and Wills passed through the area in their famous 1860 – 61 expedition, setting up a base camp at nearby Menindee.

The venture became known as the Burke & Wills expedition, with the well-known and fatal outcomes.

Leichhardt ’ s failed attempt to make the first east – west crossing of the Australian continent may be compared with the Burke and Wills expedition of 1860-61, which succeeded in crossing from south to north, but failed to return.

* Robert O ' Hara Burke ( 1821 – c. 28 June 1861 ) – Irish leader of the Burke and Wills expedition.

Map of the Burke and Wills expedition

In 1860 – 61, Robert O ' Hara Burke and William John Wills led an expedition of 19 men with the intention of crossing Australia from Melbourne in the south to the Gulf of Carpentaria in the north, a distance of around 3, 250 kilometres ( approximately 2, 000 miles ).

Burke was selected by committee ballot as the leader, and Wills was recommended as surveyor, navigator and third-in-command.

Wills was more adept than Burke at living in the wilderness, but it was Burke's leadership that was especially detrimental to the mission.

Burke, Wills, John King and Charles Gray set off for the Gulf with six camels, one horse and enough food for just three months.

Brahe was ordered by Burke to wait for three months ; Wills, however, had the maps and was more conservative and had a more realistic view of the task ahead, and secretly instructed Brahe to wait for four months.

It was around this time as the musician's popularity increased that he acquired the nickname, " Soul Brother No. 1 ", after failing to win the title " King of Soul " from Solomon Burke during a Chicago gig two years prior.

The painting that first brought him into public notice, and gained him the acquaintance and patronage of Edmund Burke, was founded on an old tradition of the landing of St Patrick on the sea-coast of Cashel, ( this is a mistake reproduced from another source, Cashel is an inland town far from the sea ) and of the conversion and Baptism of the King of Cashel It was exhibited in London in 1762 or 1763 and rediscovered in the 1980s, in unexhibitable condition.

Burke was known as " King Solomon ," the " King of Rock ' n ' Soul ," and as the " Bishop of Soul ," and described as " the Muhammad Ali of soul ," and as " the most unfairly overlooked singer of soul's golden age.

" Despite his reservations, Burke, " accompanied by smooth backing vocals and an arrangement equal parts Nashville and Nat King Cole, gave it his best.

On October 26, 1962 Burke appeared on the bill at the Apollo Theatre that headlined James Brown, and was recorded and released as The Apollo Theatre Presents In Person The James Brown Show ( King 826 ) in May 1963.

In March 1963 Burke appeared again at Chicago's Regal Theater with Roy Hamilton, Ben E. King, Rufus Thomas, Jimmy Witherspoon, The Orlons, The Five Du-Tones, and The Four Dancing Ebonites.

After a string of a dozen hit records, by November 1963 Burke had agreed to be crowned the " King of Rock ' n ' Soul " in a ceremony at the Royal Theatre in Baltimore by local deejay Fred Robinson, known professionally as " Rockin ' Robin ", who also gave him a cape and crown that he always wore on stage.

Burke accepted the appellation the " King of Rock ' N ' Soul ", indicating " without soul, there'd be no rock and without rock, there'd be no soul.

" After the success of his " Papa's Got a Brand New Bag " in late 1965, James Brown, believing he deserved to be crowned " King of Soul ", hired Burke to perform for one night in Chicago, but ended up paying not to perform but rather to watch him perform instead, expecting Burke also to surrender his crown and title to him.

Burke performed again at The Regal Theater in Chicago with Dee Clark, Dionne Warwick, and Freddie King in February 1964.

From October 16 to November 9, 1964 Burke again toured the South on Henry Wynn's Supersonic Attractions Tour with Sam Cooke, Jackie Wilson, BB King, Chuck Jackson, and Hank Ballard and the Midnighters, with Jimi Hendrix a temporary member of his band.

" According to David Cantwell, in this period, " Burke quickly became a King without a kingdom.

Burke, who had met fellow preacher King several times, agreed to Atlantic Record assigning 5 % royalty on this single to the family of King.

In 1971 Burke toured with a 31-piece soul band on his " Peace Revival " tour to promote his King Heavy album.

King and Bobby Bland, in 1974 Burke signed with ABC Dunhill Records, where his main project was the soul concept album I Have a Dream ( Dunhill DSX 50161 ), a tribute to Martin Luther King Jr, where " the songs were built on key phrases from his speeches – " Now Is the Time ", " Mountain Top ", or from the aims of his crusade " Social Change "'.

In 1984 Rounder Records released Soul Alive !, a recording of Burke's 1981 live performances at the Phoenix 1 Club in Washington D. C., that was produced by King Solomon Haile Selassie Burke, Burke's youngest son, who " was just fourteen years old when he put the Souls Alive album out for me.

By 1997 Burke was signed by Jim Fifield, the President and CEO of EMI, to Point Blank Records, a subsidiary of Virgin Records, where he released an album The Definition of Soul, that was produced by one of his sons, King Solomon Haile Selassie Burke.

On November 8, 2003 Burke performed at Avo Session Basel in Switzerland, where he sang " Georgia on My Mind ", " Stand by Me ", " A Change is Gonna Come ", and " Proud Mary ', which was released on DVD as Solomon Burke: The King Live at Avo Session Basel.

The sessions produced the first recording of Griffin's " Up to the Mountain ( MLK Song )", which she brought to Burke because of his association with King and that era.

After Fianna Fáil returned to power at the 1987 general election, Burke served as Minister for Energy until 1988, when he was appointed Minister for Industry and Commerce and Communications.

To fulfil his contractual obligations, Burke returned to Apollo briefly in 1960 for one more single ( Apollo 747 ), which was released in 1961, under the pseudonym of Little Vincent, in an act of homage to his stepfather.

Burke returned to the studio on June 25, 1962, and recorded four songs, including " I Really Don't Want to Know " (# 93 Pop ) b / w " Tonight My Heart Is Crying " ( Atlantic 2157 ) and " I Can Make It If I Try " ( Atlantic 2185 ).

On August 13, 1962 Burke returned to New York to record four songs, but only two were released, and neither charted.

" " Reworked as a celebration of black consciousness, his potent mix of gospel and country – the kind that defined his earlier sides for Atlantic – and driven by a Southern funk-like strut, .... it returned Burke to the US R & B Top 20 ", with the single reaching # 15 on the R & B charts and # 45 on the pop charts.

Burke was a notable example of this trend when in 1979 he returned to his gospel music roots by signing with gospel label Savoy Records.

Burke returned to his country roots with the release on September 26, 2006 of a 14-track country album titled Nashville, produced by Buddy Miller.

The two men decided to go back to Cooper Creek to see if Burke had returned.

As the mark and date on the tree were unaltered, Brahe and Wright assumed that Burke had not returned, and did not think to check to see if the supplies were still buried.

Later that day, Burke, Wills and King returned from the Gulf to find the Depôt deserted.

In 2008, Nunzio returned on January 15, in a losing effort against Shelton Benjamin, and on his next appearance, on April 8, he lost to Elijah Burke.

Fertig returned to OVW, wrestling under a mask as Vengeance, and competed only sporadically against wrestlers including Elijah Burke, Mark Henry, Johnny Jeter, and Matt Cappotelli.

After a divorce in the 1940s, Burke returned to Nevada to work and then on to the east coast to stay with family.

Two weeks later he returned to Ibrox in a friendly between Rangers and Zenit and was booed after injuring Chris Burke with what was described as a reckless tackle.

Recruited by Chris Stein and Debbie Harry when they were first forming Blondie, Burke remained with the band through its first stage and later returned for its late 1990s reunion and then its extensive 2009 tour.

) Burke also spent a short period of time in Kansas City for a musical job, but soon returned.

* Caunt claims the English Championship after defeating Bendigo but is not recognised because of the prior claim of James Burke, who has now returned to England from America ; meanwhile, Jem Ward continues his refusal to formally surrender the title even though he has long retired.

Fitzwilliam returned to his previous independence when the scheme for a " third party " collapsed and Laurence wrote to Fitzwilliam on 9 July ( the day of Burke's death ) that Burke had said on his deathbed: " Inform Lord Fitzwilliam from me that it is my dying advice and request to him, steadily to pursue that course in which he now is.

Burke made these statements immediately after being elected, and after his colleague had spoken in favor of coercive instructions being given to representatives ; Burke failed to be returned at the next election.

As a result, in the 14th and 15th centuries, in the wake of Irish rebellion, Scottish invasion, the Black Death and a lack of interest on the part of the London government, many of the outlying English territories returned to the control of Irish lords ; in others, such as those controlled by the great dynasties of Butler, Fitzgerald and Burke, the rulers achieved effective independence, raising their own armed forces, enforcing their own law and adopting Gaelic-Irish language and culture.

Two weeks later, Burke returned to the ring ; he and Terkay lost to The Hardys.

Zezel retired from the NHL and returned home, with Burke and Canucks ' management receiving criticism from a media and public sympathetic to Zezel's situation and for the callous way they thought he was treated.

Jimmy Marinos, the Romantics ' original drummer, temporarily returned to the band for a series of performances in 1996-1997 ( with Clem Burke returning to the Romantics ' drumstool after Marinos departed again ), and late 1990s nostalgia for 1980s pop culture caused a minor resurgence of interest in the band.