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Robert O'Hara Burke

1821 - 1861

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Robert O'Hara Burke (6 May 1821 – c. 28 June 1861) was an Irish soldier and police officer who achieved fame as an Australian explorer. He was the leader of the ill-fated Burke and Wills expedition, which was the first expedition to cross Australia from south to north, finding a route across the continent from the settled areas of Victoria to the Gulf of Carpentaria. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Robert O'Hara Burke has received more than 187,213 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Robert O'Hara Burke is the 452nd most popular explorer (down from 399th in 2019), the 267th most popular biography from Ireland (down from 224th in 2019) and the 7th most popular Irish Explorer.

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Among EXPLORERS

Among explorers, Robert O'Hara Burke ranks 452 out of 498Before him are Frank Wild, Gombojab Tsybikov, Johann Ludwig Krapf, John Moresby, Krystyna Chojnowska-Liskiewicz, and Charles Sturt. After him are Edgar Evans, Jacques Bernard Hombron, Grigory Grum-Grshimailo, John Rae, Vassili Poyarkov, and Georgy Ushakov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1821, Robert O'Hara Burke ranks 93Before him are Juan Bautista Topete, Amalie Dietrich, George Williams, Carl Bolle, Heinrich Moritz Willkomm, and Jan van Beers. After him are Charles Tupper, Churchill Babington, Daniel Harvey Hill, Old Tom Morris, and Robert S. Duncanson. Among people deceased in 1861, Robert O'Hara Burke ranks 62Before him are Jakob Philipp Fallmerayer, Frédéric de Lafresnaye, Sidney Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Lea, Édouard Ménétries, José María Linares, and Jorge Córdova. After him are Pierre Bosquet, Eliphalet Remington, William Lyon Mackenzie, Nathaniel Lyon, and Edward Dickinson Baker.

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In Ireland

Among people born in Ireland, Robert O'Hara Burke ranks 267 out of 549Before him are Victor Herbert (1859), Michael Scott (1959), Paddy Moloney (1938), Eoin Colfer (1965), Jack Lynch (1917), and Matt McGrath (1875). After him are Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe (1865), Sydney, Lady Morgan (1776), Harry Clarke (1889), Evanna Lynch (1991), James Cecil Parke (1881), and Agnes Mary Clerke (1842).

Among EXPLORERS In Ireland

Among explorers born in Ireland, Robert O'Hara Burke ranks 7Before him are Ernest Shackleton (1874), Antoine Thomson d'Abbadie (1810), Edward Bransfield (1785), Arnaud-Michel d'Abbadie (1815), Robert McClure (1807), and Henry Kellett (1806). After him are Tom Crean (1877).