What caused the ultimate demise of Australia's most famous explorers | 60 Minutes Australia

To mark the 150th anniversary of Burke and Wills' ill-fated expedition across Australia, 60 Minutes retraced their footsteps.
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Synopsis | A Glorious Disaster (2010)
It's one of those odd and very Australian quirks that we tend to create our legends from ratbags and failures. Ned Kelly is a hero, our greatest pride is the defeat at Gallipoli and our most famous explorers are Burke and Wills. These two blokes failed dismally in their attempt to be the first Europeans to cross this country, but we admire them anyway because they gave it a damned good shake. To mark the 150th anniversary of that ill-fated expedition, Charles Wooley retraced their footsteps, taking along a famous actor, a historian and a modern-day explorer for company. And what Charles discovered was a very different Robert O'Hara Burke from the one he learnt about at school.
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