Places Named After Burke
- Burketown, Queensland.
- Burke River in western Queensland.
- O'Haras Gap, Selwyn Ranges, Queensland.
- Cloncurry, Burke named the Cloncurry River after his cousin, Elizabeth Kirwan, who had married Lord Cloncurry. Lady Cloncurry was the daughter of Burke's paternal Aunt Penelope and her husband John Kirwan.
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