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William Wills stone obelisk

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Overview

A stone obelisk commemorates William Wills, explorer of Australia and born here in 1834. The British surveyor and surgeon was second-in-command of the Burke and Wills expedition, an ill-fated attempt to cross Australia from south to north.

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