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unusual facts about John McKinlay


John McKinlay

On 20 October 1861 the grave of a European, supposed to be Charles Gray, was found near Cooper Creek.


William Hodgkinson

Hodgkinson left the expedition before it ended in disaster at Cooper Creek, and went on to join first Alfred William Howitt’s Victorian Relief Expedition, which aimed to establish the fate of the Burke and Wills expedition, and then in 1861 the John McKinlay relief party, on which he served as second-in-command.


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