History of Burketown and Surrounding Districts
 

A Brief History of the Gulf of Carpentaria Burketown on the Albert - Images Bob Shadforth Bob Edols of Carpentaria Downs c1890 The Boiling Down Works

Sweers Island  The Investigator Tree Papers by Professor Peter Saenger Southern Cross University

The Burketown Bore

Colonial Flat

The Landsborough Tree

Leichhardt; an overview

J.G.MacDonald - Crossing Point

The Old Post Office

Plains of Promise

Frederick Walker, Official Memorial - and another article: Frederick Walker

Woods Lake

The Firefly Boat Site

Burketown Old Commercial Centre

Gregory Hotel, Burke Shire

Burketown Old Wharf 

Northern Territory Border

Station Life

Expedition Crossing Point - Augustus Gregory

Expedition Crossing Point - Landsborough

Lieutenant D'arcy Uhr

The Telegraph and the Submarine Cable

Sweers Island and The Naming of Australia

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Neville Shute wrote In the Wet based on his experiences in Burketown, and it is likely that the fictional Willstown in A Town Like Alice is also based on Burketown.

Information is required on the origin of the name "Truganini Landing". Please contact dropbears.com

April 2009
subject: Truganinin landing
Email: burkeshireranger<AT>bigpond.com
message: I don't know if it has any bearing but in the early 1900's one of Burns Phillips supply boats was called Truganini