Photo Outback

If you study the journals of the great Australian explorers and study the modern day maps and Google Earth to understand where they went, then you'll understand the feeling of accomplishment and affinity when standing in their very footprints.

There are so many signifacant spots of the Australian inland explorers, quite unknown to the modern historian.

Of course, the tree where Burk and Wills left their base camp on the creek of the Darling River, not far north of Menindee is well known and signposted.

But the spot where William Coulthard died and was buried, the camp of  Babbage at Giles waterhole, the spot where Eyre and Wilie got stuck in the swamp, trying to cross the Kings River, the camp of Stuart at Beda waterhole: these and many more places of the explorers are the forgotten history of the European discovery of inland Australia.