Burke & Wills 60: Duchess - Burke and Wills Expedition (sitios de interés)
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Burke's party climbed the Selwyn Range at Ohara's Gap, north of today's town of Duchess, then descended to Turner's Creek. It was precipitous terrain, and in one of his infrequent journal entries, Burke noted the "camels sweating profusely from fear".The hamlet of Duchess boomed with the copper rush of the late 1890s and by 1904 its mine far outproduced even neighbouring Cloncurry's Great Australian Mine. Duchess was revitalised when phosphate was discovered to the south in the 1960s.