Talk:Burke and Wills expedition

message: Link to Charles Grey is not correct.  Need to fix, not sure how to do it. Jimc 22:19, 21 Aug 2003 (UTC)
replies: text: See Wikipedia:Disambiguation. The disambiguation section of Wikipedia:Boilerplate text is also useful. If you want to write the biographies not just move them around, you should read Wikipedia:Manual of Style (biographies) if you haven't already done so. -- Tim Starling 01:40, 22 Aug 2003 (UTC)
thread_title:  Fix links 

message: As I recall, the Dig Tree was vandalised early this year or late last year, and burned to the ground. It was on the news, but I don't have a ref for it and this will need to be checked. Tannin 13:32, 20 Sep 2003 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dig Tree Vandalised 

message: Im confused about how many times they returned to Coopers creek.. obviously there was 1) when they camped there on their way north, and 2) when they returned and found the dig sign.. but I'm not sure if they came back a 3rd time - they headed south west through the desert but did they turn back? the state library of victoria says that only Wills returned to the camp: "Burke later sent Wills back to Camp LXV for another 'last look'." whereas here it says that all three of them went back: "Meanwhile Burke, Wills and King realised they could not make the long trip. Their supplies were running out and the last camel had died so they returned to Coopers Creek." , while a number of other sources dont mention a 3rd arrival at Coopers creek by Burke & Wills at all. Cfitzart 13:34, 15 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Return to Coopers Creek - different sources 

message: The article has miles in some places and kilometres in other places.  Somebody should standardise these (my brain won't function well enough to do the conversions).  Australia is metric now, but we used miles back then.  We should probably go with miles.  JackofOz 06:47, 17 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Miles and kilometres

message: I've removed mention of the "police outpost" at Mt Hopeless from here and the biographies of Burke and Wills, because I've been doing some research into the history of the Flinders Ranges, and it's clear there was no such thing. A police outpost was briefly established at Angepena station (some 100 km southeast of Mt Hopeless) in 1857. Only in 1869 was a more permanent station was opened at Mount Freeling, some 40km east of Mt Hopeless. Since I had also always known the Burke and Wills story as setting out for a police station at Mt Hopeless, I checked Alan Moorehead's Cooper's Creek, and found that he indeed only refers to "the homesteads which they believed existed near Mount Hopeless" (p 110). As John Baker had established a station on the extreme frontier at Blanchewater in 1858 (very near Mount Hopeless), it's undoubtedly that station which Burke had heard of before they left, and what they were heading for. Itsonlyme 15:14, 4 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mount Hopeless "police outpost" 

message: According to this article:
 http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200607/s1679742.htm
in 1875 a credible account was published that Burke was killed by King.  It deserves a mention here. McKay 12:07, 5 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Burke's death 

message: I nominated this article for Australian collaboration of the fortnight. Please go to the WP page bluelinked in the header to add your support.SauliH 14:41, 10 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: [[WP:ACOTF|ACOTF]] nomination

message: If there is not going to be an entirely separate article for the Statue crafted by Charles Summers, then surely this article must have a section on the funding for, and the construction of, the statue. And, as well, it should contain an account of the different locations this poor statue has been forced to occupy, and the reasons for each of its moves. Also, it would seem rather important that the account also refers to the fact that the statue, in its correct and original location, comes in for a mention Fergus Hume's Mystery of a Hansom Cab.129.94.30.6 (talk) 02:29, 17 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Statue 

message: The name of Charles Grey in this article is sometimes spelled with "a" and sometimes with "e".  I don't know which is correct, so if someone who knows the answer would make the changes.  75.69.0.58 (talk) 10:53, 3 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Grey or Gray? 

message: This weblink is dead. I was going to replace it with this one but it doesn't seem appropriate to the context. --Northernhenge (talk) 13:33, 3 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Broken weblink 

message: Any reason the "departure section" is not in chronological order?LRT24 (talk) 00:08, 10 February 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Not in order?

message: Substituted at 10:32, 29 April 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Assessment comment

message: It seems entirely inappropriate to describe this as an "Australian expedition". This was the Victoria Exploration Expedition; the states were not federated into Australia and were in fierce competition. State rivalry between South Australia and Victoria was particularly important.  This was not an "Australian" expedition but an expedition funded by the state of Victoria and the Philosophical Institute of Victoria.MargaretRDonald (talk) 22:03, 15 October 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Australian Expedition?