The explorer John McKinlay died at the age of 53. Here is all you want to know, and more!
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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.
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.