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Because Robert O'Hara Burke and William Wills were the first to travel through western and northern Queensland, there are several places named after them in that part of Queensland.

  • Burketown
  • Burke River
  • O'Hara's Gap in the Selwyn Ranges

Burke and Wills were both from Victoria, so there are numerous sites around the state commemorating the two men.

  • Burke Museum, Beechworth (where Burke was Superintendent of Police for some time) and a minument to Burke in Castlemaine, where he was also Superintendent
  • A monumental bronze statue, currently in the centre of Melbourne, but which has previously been in various other locations around Melbourne
  • A memorial cairn in Melbourne's Royal Park, the point of Burke and Wills' departure
  • A Burke & Wills memorial fountain in Ballarat's main street
  • A monument in the main Bendigo Cemetery
  • The Dig Tree, the Burke Tree and other monuments at Cooper Creek, where the men spent their final weeks awaiting rescue
  • A huge memorial in Melbourne General Cemetery
  • The Victorian electorate of Wills is named after William Wills.

In addition:

The Haast Pass area of New Zealand was being explored about the time of the searches for Burke and Wills. Julius von Haast named several features after them, There is the Burke River, and the Wills River, both extraordinarily different from the country of their patronym's exploration country.

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