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The journey of Burke and Wills from Melbourne to the Gulf of Carpentaria was a distance of 2,800 km or 1,750 miles. They made it back about halfway before dying of malnutrition and nardoo poisoning on the banks of Cooper Creek, so add another 1,400 km.

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