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The first people to cross Australia south to north were Burke and Wills. However, Burke and Wills did not return alive. The first recorded person to cross Australia and survive was John MacDouall Stuart. Then there was John McKinlay, who led the South Australian relief expedition for Burke and Wills. He set out from Adelaide on 16 August 1861 and, during the course of his search, McKinlay's journals show that he crossed the continent from south to north, then east and back again, possibly making him the uncredited first explorer to cross the continent and survive. The first to cross the continent east to west was Edward Eyre, doing so in 1840-41.

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