Burke's tree, Innamincka waterhole, South Australia, November, 2001 [picture] / Jon Rhodes
- Bib ID:
- 1566300
- Format:
- Picture
- Author:
- Rhodes, Jon, 1947-
- Online Version:
- National Library of Australia digitised item
- Description:
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- 2001
- 1 photograph : gelatin silver ; image 17.4 x 26.1 cm., sheet 20.0 x 28.7 cm.
- Series:
- Burke & Wills Expedition, sites and memorials.
- Notes:
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- Condition: Good.
- Part of the collection of photographs of the different sites and memorials of the Burke and Wills Expedition.
- Title supplied by artist.
- "Located 8 km from Innamincka township on Cooper Creek, the tree was marked by A.W. Howitt in 1861 as Burke's temporary grave."--Note from the photographer.
- Inscription on the plaque reads: "Robert O'Hara Burke died here 26 June 1861."
- Also available online http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-146658004
- Subject:
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- Burke, Robert O'Hara, 1821-1861 -- Monuments -- Photographs
- Howitt, A. W. (Alfred William), 1830-1908
- Burke and Wills Expedition (1860-1861) -- Monuments -- Photographs
- Historic sites -- Innamincka (S.A.) -- Photographs
- Historic trees -- Innamincka (S.A.) -- Photographs
- Explorers -- Monuments -- South Australia -- Innamincka -- Photographs
- Explorers -- Monuments -- Queensland -- Cooper Creek -- Photographs
- Innamincka (S.A.) -- Photographs
- Cooper Creek Region (Qld. and S.A.) -- Photographs
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- Creation date:
- 2001
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