AUSTRALIAN BIOGRAPHY
William John Wills
William Wills was a British survey
who also trained for a while as a surgeon. He achieved fame as the second-in-command 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.
EARLY LIFE
William John was born in 1834 on the 5th of January in Totnes, Devon in England. William Wills was most remembered for being second in command in the first European expedition to cross the Australian continent from South to North.
THE EXPEDITION
The expedition set off from Royal Park, Melbourne at about 4 pm on 20 August 1860.
The party first headed North to Coopers creek.
The expedition kept traveling north to the Gulf of Carpentaria .
DIG TREE
On their way back, The expedition was lost and stranded. Soon they found a tree with words carved
DIG 3FT NW So Burke dug 3 feet North-West and found a box with supplies in it.
WILLS DEATH
Burke and King left Wills alone in a gunyah on 29 or 30 June 1861. When King returned on the 5 or 6 of July, Wills was dead. King covered the corpse with sand. Howitt buried the body where it lay on 18 September 1861 and blazed a tree on the bank.
Hugh Michael Jackman
Hugh Jackman is an Australian actor, singer, and producer. Jackman has won international recognition for his roles in major films, notably as superhero, period, and romance characters. He is best known for his long-running role as Wolverine in the X-Men film series, as well as for his lead roles in the romantic-comedy fantasy Kate & Leopold (2001), the action-horror film Van Helsing (2004), the magic-themed drama The Prestige (2006), the epic historical romantic drama Australia (2008), the sci-fi sports drama Real Steel (2011), the film version of Les Misérables (2012), and the thriller Prisoners (2013). His work in Les Misérables earned him his first Academy Award nomination for Best Actor and his first Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy in 2013. In theater, he won a Tony Award for his role in The Boy from Oz.
Early Life
Jackman was born in Sydney, New South Wales, the son of Grace McNeil (née Greenwood) and Christopher John Jackman, a Cambridge-trained accountant. His parents were English and had come to Australia in 1967
Hugh Jackman is an Australian actor, singer, and producer. Jackman has won international recognition for his roles in major films, notably as superhero, period, and romance characters. He is best known for his long-running role as Wolverine in the X-Men film series, as well as for his lead roles in the romantic-comedy fantasy Kate & Leopold (2001), the action-horror film Van Helsing (2004), the magic-themed drama The Prestige (2006), the epic historical romantic drama Australia (2008), the sci-fi sports drama Real Steel (2011), the film version of Les Misérables (2012), and the thriller Prisoners (2013). His work in Les Misérables earned him his first Academy Award nomination for Best Actor and his first Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy in 2013. In theater, he won a Tony Award for his role in The Boy from Oz.
Early Life
Jackman was born in Sydney, New South Wales, the son of Grace McNeil (née Greenwood) and Christopher John Jackman, a Cambridge-trained accountant. His parents were English and had come to Australia in 1967
