Wednesday, April 18, 2012

Burke & Wills - Wills & Burke

While reading my favorite forum, Expedition Portal, I've subscribed to a thread called "Coolest expedtion type movies." A recent post said something about "Burke & Wills." This struck me with a great deal of curiosity as my last names is Wills and my rally co-pilots' last name is Burke! 


So, the post stated, "Burke and Wills - Melbourne to the Gulf of Carpentaria in 1860 with expedition camels. The first Europeans to(almost)do so. Sound quality is sketchy (in the netflix stream version anyway) but a decent film."
http://www.expeditionportal.com/forum/threads/2118-Coolest-quot-expedition-quot-type-movies?p=1063171#post1063171


I grabbed the "Burke and Wills" and dropped that into the Google search window and came across this: "In 1860–61, Robert O'Hara Burke and William John Wills led an expedition of 19 men with the intention of crossing Australia from Melbournein the south to the Gulf of Carpentaria in the north, a distance of around 3,250 kilometres (approximately 2,000 miles).[1] At that time most of the inland of Australia had not been explored by non-indigenous people and was completely unknown to the European settlers."
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burke_and_Wills_expedition




















The OG Burke & Wills above and the new school Wills & Burke below:






















Now to go watch this movie:
http://movies.netflix.com/WiMovie/Burke_Wills/70146974?trkid=2361637

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