Slide showing a black and white photograph of the Burke and Wills Monument in the city of Melbourne in Australia. The Burke and Wills Statue by Charles Summers is located on the corner of Collins and Swanston Streets, Melbourne. In 1860?61, Robert O'Hara Burke and William John Wills led an expedition of 19 men with the intention of crossing Australia from Melbourne in the south to the Gulf of Carpentaria in the north. Part of Box 100. Boswell Collection. Slide number 34.