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John McKinlay

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Personal details and public facts.

Profession
Explorer
Died
Dec 31, 1872
Zodiac
Virgo
Born in
Scotland
About
Remembered for his nineteenth-century exploration of Australia, this Scottish-born adventurer is particularly notable for his involvement in the search and rescue effort following the disastrous Burke and Wills expedition of the early 1860s.
Family
A native of Sandbank, Scotland, and the child of Dugald and Catherine McKinlay, he relocated with his brother, Alexander, to New South Wales Australia, at the age of seventeen. He married Jane Pile in 1863.

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