William John Wills

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Robert O'Hara Burke (left) and William John Wills.

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King Cobra snake in Malaysia. (reptile)

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William John Wills

Australian explorer

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association with Burke

In Robert O’Hara Burke
…by his second in command, William John Wills, and by Charles Gray and John King. The four reached northern Australia in February 1861 but could not penetrate the swamps and jungle scrub that lay between them and the Gulf of Carpentaria.
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history of Australia

In Australia: Culture
…of Robert O’Hara Burke and William John Wills, who crossed from Melbourne to the Gulf of Carpentaria in 1860–61 but starved to death on the return. Later explorations of Western Australia in the 1870s added the names of John Forrest and Ernest Giles to the pantheon of explorer-heroes.
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