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Paperweights and coat button polishers – The Ghostgum Chronicles

In April 1861, the explorers Robert Burke and William Wills — sick, starving and desperate to survive — abandoned their surveying instruments and other 'non-essential' items in outback Queensland and continued south on their ill-fated …

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Paperweights and coat button polishers – The Ghostgum Chronicles

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