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See also:BURKE, See also:ROBERT O'HARA (1820-1861), Australian explorer, was See also:born at St Cleram, Co. See also:Galway, See also:Ireland, in 1820. Descended from a See also:branch of the See also:family of See also:Clanricarde, he was educated in See also:Belgium, and at twenty years of See also:age entered the See also:Austrian See also:army, in which he attained. the See also:rank of See also:captain. In 1848 he See also:left the Austrian service, and became a member of the Royal Irish Constabulary. Five years later he emigrated to See also:Tasmania, andshortly afterwards crossed to See also:Melbourne, where he became an inspector of See also:police. When the See also:Crimean See also:War See also:broke out he went to See also:England in the See also:hope of securing a See also:commission in the army, but See also:peace had meanwhile been signed, and he returned to See also:Victoria and resumed his police duties. At the end of 1857 the Philosophical See also:Institute of Victoria took up the question of the exploration of the interior of the Australian See also:continent,and appointed a See also:committee to inquire into and See also:report upon the subject. In See also:September 1858, when it became known that See also:John McDouall See also:Stuart had succeeded in penetrating as far as the centre of See also:Australia, the sum of £r000 was anonymously offered for the promotion of an expedition to See also:cross the continent from See also:south to See also:north, on See also:condition that a further sum of £2000 should be sub-scribed within a twelvemonth. The amount having been raised within the See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time specified, the Victorian See also:parliament supplemented it by a See also:vote of £6000, and an expedition was organized under the leadership of Burke, with W. J. See also:Wills as surveyor and astronomical observer. The See also:story of this expedition, which left Melbourne on the 21st of See also:August 1860, furnishes perhaps the most painful See also:episode in Australian See also:annals. Ten Europeans and three Sepoys accompanied the expedition, which was soon torn by See also:internal dissensions. Near Menindie on the See also:Darling, Landells, Burke's second in command, became insubordinate and resigned, his example being followed by the doctor—a See also:German. On the rrth of See also:November Burke, with Wills and five assistants, fifteen horses and sixteen camels, reached See also:- COOPER
- COOPER (or COUPER), THOMAS (c. 1517-1594)
- COOPER, ABRAHAM (1787—1868)
- COOPER, ALEXANDER (d. i66o)
- COOPER, CHARLES HENRY (18o8-1866)
- COOPER, JAMES FENIMORE (1789-1851)
- COOPER, PETER (1791-1883)
- COOPER, SAMUEL (1609-1672)
- COOPER, SIR ASTLEY PASTON (1768-1841)
- COOPER, THOMAS (1759–1840)
- COOPER, THOMAS (1805–1892)
- COOPER, THOMAS SIDNEY (1803–1902)
Cooper's See also:Creek in See also:Queensland, where a See also:depot was formed near See also:good grass and abundance of See also:water. Here Burke proposed waiting the arrival of his third officer, See also:Wright, whom he had sent back from Torowoto to Menindie to fetch some camels and supplies. Wright, however, delayed his departure until the 26th of See also:January 1861. Meantime, weary of waiting, Burke, with Wills, See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
King and See also:- GRAY
- GRAY (or GREY), WALTER DE (d. 1255)
- GRAY, ASA (1810-1888)
- GRAY, DAVID (1838-1861)
- GRAY, ELISHA (1835-1901)
- GRAY, HENRY PETERS (1819-18/7)
- GRAY, HORACE (1828–1902)
- GRAY, JOHN DE (d. 1214)
- GRAY, JOHN EDWARD (1800–1875)
- GRAY, PATRICK GRAY, 6TH BARON (d. 1612)
- GRAY, ROBERT (1809-1872)
- GRAY, SIR THOMAS (d. c. 1369)
- GRAY, THOMAS (1716-1771)
Gray as companions, determined on the 16th of See also:December to push on across the continent, leaving an assistant named See also:Brahe to take care of the depot until Wright's arrival. On the 4th of See also:February 1861 Burke and his party, worn down by See also:famine, reached the See also:estuary of the See also:Flinders See also:river, not far from the See also:present site of Normantown on the Gulf of See also:Carpentaria. On the 26th of February began their return See also:journey. The party suffered greatly from famine and exposure, and but for the See also:rainy See also:season, thirst would have speedily ended their miseries. In vain they looked for the See also:relief which Wright was to bring them. On the 16th of See also:April Gray died, and the emaciated survivors halted a See also:day to See also:bury his See also:body. That day's delay, as it turned out, cost Burke and Wills their lives; they arrived at Cooper's Creek to find the depot deserted. But a few See also:hours before Brahe, unrelieved by Wright, and thinking that Burke had died or changed his plans, had taken his departure for the Darling. With such assistance as they could get from the natives, Burke, and his two companions struggled on, until See also:death overtook Burke and Wills at the end of See also:June. King sought the natives, who cared for him until his relief by a See also:search party in September. No one can deny the heroism of the men whose lives were sacrificed in this See also:ill-starred expedition. But it is admitted that the leaders were not See also:bushmen and had had no experience in exploration. Disunion and disobedience to orders, from the highest to the lowest, brought about the worst results, and all that now remains to tell the story of the failure of this vast undertaking is a See also:monument to the memory of the foolhardy heroes, from the See also:chisel of See also:Charles Summers, erected on a prominent site in Melbourne.
End of Article: BURKE, ROBERT
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