Description

A parody of the two 19th-century Australian explorers who embarked on an ill-fated expedition across the Australian continent. In December 1860 Robert OHara Burke (Garry McDonald) and William John Wills (Kim Gyngell) set out from Melbourne with a large caravan of people and supplies. Intending to reach the northern coast and the Gulf of Carpenteria, a distance of 3250km, only one returned alive from the 19 men
who started the trek.