Tom Bergin is a veteranarian who decided to re-enact the South to North crossing of Australia by Burke & Wills. He found it just as hard as they did and had a lot more help but even then they had to stop after eaching the Gulf of Carpentaria becuase his camels were so worn out. He found that Burke's main problems were covering too much ground per day and doing it in the wet season. The original diary entries make for grim reading. One of the sponsors was Channel 2 and I can vaguely remember watching a show about this.
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