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Not who you're looking for? Others named John King: Bishop of London in the Church of England, (1559-1621) · Double recipient of the Medal of Honor · Anglo-Irish administrator, politician and landowner · Welsh footballer, born 1933
John King (15 December 1838 – 15 January 1872) was an Irish-born British soldier who achieved fame as an Australian explorer. He was the sole survivor of the four men from the ill-fated Burke and Wills expedition who reached the Gulf of Carpentaria. The expedition was the first to cross Australia from south to north, finding a route across the continent from Melbourne in Victoria to the Gulf of Carpentaria in Queensland.
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