List of people who have walked across Australia
These include Aidan de Brune, Nobby Young, Colin Ricketts, Andrew 'Cad' Cadigan, Scott Loxley, Mike Pauly, and Terra Roam.
Burke, along with William Wills, John King, and Charley Gray, reached the mangroves on the estuary of the Flinders River near where the town of Normanton now stands, on 9 February 1861.
Burke, along with William Wills, John King, and Charley Gray, reached the mangroves on the estuary of the Flinders River near where the town of Normanton now stands, on 9 February 1861.
King was the sole survivor of the four men of the expedition, and survived with the help of Aboriginal people until he was found on 15 September by Edwin Welch – the surveyor in Alfred William Howitt's Victorian Contingent Party.
[10] He followed the 'French Line' – a route taken by the CGG surveyor Roy Elkins 21 years prior who also completed the walk but with the assistance of a support crew.
His backpack 'Clinger' and the tattered boots he wore across Australia were temporarily displayed in the Smithsonian after his record-setting solo walk around the world was completed.
Roger Scott departed from Darwin for Dover on 6 August 1988, raising funds for the Top End Life Education Centre and the NT Spastics Association.
Olsen walked 5,622 kilometres (3,493 mi) unsupported from Cape York Peninsula to Tasmania in 167 days, and raised a little over $10,000 for a charity working with children with cerebral palsy.
Motivated by the then recent death of his deaf-blind niece, he raised approximately $5,700 for the charity towards the purchase of a bus for transport of deaf and blind children using wheelchairs.
[34] After leaving Perth and crossing the Nullarbor, she travelled south from Port Augusta to Adelaide, along the coast through Mount Gambier to Melbourne, then up the Princes Highway through Eden to Sydney.
He completed the walk wearing the white 'Storm Trooper' armour from George Lucas' Star Wars films, and raised $88,523 for the Starlight Children's Foundation in the process.
Cadigan undertook the walk in honor of Chris Simpson, a friend who had died from complications related to myelodysplasia, and raised over $65,000 – $25,000 for The Cancer Council and $40,000 for the Leukemia Foundation.
Shortly after completing the walk, while holidaying and recuperating in Thailand, Cadigan suffered head injuries in a motorcycle accident, and later died in hospital in Sydney, on 5 October 2012.
The Leukemia Foundation has struck a research PhD into myelodysplasia, named in honour of Cadigan and Simpson, with a trust called Cad's Cause continuing to raise funds.
[63][64][65][66][67] On 2 February 2013, Matt Napier set off from Perth to walk to Sydney via Adelaide, Melbourne, and Canberra to raise awareness of Global Poverty.
Matt's walk was unique in that he bounced an AFL football the whole way to symbolize the important role sport plays in alleviating extreme poverty around the world.
On 21 February 2013, Brendon Alsop set off, with his dog Jojo, from Geelong to walk around Australia on the Fatmans Great Aussie Trek.
[70][71] On 2 November 2013, Scott left Melbourne and began walking solo around Australia covering every state and territory wearing a Star Wars Sandtrooper costume.
Scott Loxley officially crossed the finish line on Monday 15 June 2015 at the Monash Children's Hospital, after over 15,000 km of walking around Australia to raise funds which exceeded $110,000.
John walked diagonally across Australia to honor the memory of his late wife Vida, and to raise awareness and funds for leukodystrophy which claimed her life in 2014.
[73] He took about five and a half-month to cover a distance of 4,032km made of 5,771,768 steps to finally reached Canberra Parliament House on 27 September 2017, to coincide with his older son's birthday, who also walked with him the initial three days.
When Roam reached the east coast they switched back to a backpack for the remaining distance to get away from roads and take the scenic tracks and paths through national parks, state forests and beaches.
Not all their breaks were planned, when a truck driver tried running them down from behind on the Barkly Highway they took time off to recover from the trauma and adjusted their route to leave that region.
When injuries to their feet and pelvic imbalance were beginning to cause blackouts they took a 6-month break for rehabilitation and after a fall broke and dislocated their ankle only 900km from completing their lap they were forced to take another 6 months off.
Roam walked through 2 cyclones, 2 floods, an earthquake, fires, fly plague, heatwaves and a blizzard, faced death threats from a stalker, fought off a wild dog attack and survived attempted murder.
[79] For 12 months, Alwyn Doolan walked from Cape York in Queensland to Parliament House in Canberra with the intention of delivering a message to the federal government on reconciliation.
Mr Doolan (at the time of writing) planned to walk back to Woorabinda in Central Queensland, roughly 1,500 km away, with three message sticks still in tow.
[80] 61-year-old Bob Hanley was of failing health and his doctor predicted that he would soon be confined to a wheelchair due to advanced spondylitis, with the prospects of not much more than six months to enjoy life at any level.
He tracked his daily efforts using a Garmin triathlon watch and uploaded the GPS, heart rate as well as other biometric data to each point on a Google map for his family and friends to view as he progressed.
Born and raised in the Blue Mountains and hosting a Malaysian family for the last 18 months, Ivor has a close experience with the problems Australians have at assisting refugees and asylum seekers.
