Photograph - Colour, Burke and Wills Fountain, Sturt Street Gardens, 2011, 29/12/2011

Historical information

The fontain was once lit with gas and stocked with goldfish and tortoises.

Physical description

Colour photographs of the Burke and Wills Fountain in Sturt Street Balllarat.

Inscriptions & markings

Plaque
"Robert O'hara Burke, Leader.
Died 30th June, 1861.
William John Wills, Second.
Died 30th June, 1861.
Ludwig Becker, Naturalist.
Died 29th April, 1861.
Charles Grey, Assistant.
Sied 17th April, 1861."

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