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About Robert O'Hara Burke
Robert O'Hara Burke was an Irish soldier and police officer who achieved fame as an Australian explorer. He was the leader of the ill-fated Burke and Wills expedition, which was the first expedition to cross Australia from south to north, finding a route across the continent from the settled areas of Victoria to the Gulf of Carpentaria. The expedition party was well equipped, but Burke was not experienced in bushcraft. A Commission of Inquiry held by the Government of Victoria to investigate the failure of the expedition was a censure of Burke's judgement.
Everything about Robert O'Hara Burke →- Occupation
- explorer, police officer, police officer
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- Born
- May 6, 1821, 1821
- Died
- June 28, 1861, July 1, 1861