Burketown – Moreton Bay and More

The early days in the Gulf, in colour.

Burketown Burketown and Normanton are towns on either side of the Gulf of Carpentaria – Normanton is on the east, and Burketown on the west. Both towns are historically linked to the Victorian Exploring Expedition, led by Robert O’Hara Burke and William Wills in 1860-1861. That expedition left Melbourne in 1860, and reached the GulfContinue reading “The early days in the Gulf, in colour.”