Artefact sparks new interest in Burke and Wills expedition
Updated April 08, 2008 10:56:00  The Simpson Desert in South
Australia's far north is as remote as it is hostile.  While few
people choose to spend time here, for two brothers from Adelaide
a chance discovery unearthed a rare link with Australia's most
famous explorers, Burke and Wills.  Eric and Klaus Ganzert make
their living restoring houses, but it was during a fishing trip
to Cooper Creek seven years ago that they discovered a medal.
"I saw this thing sticking out in this low sand dune and
originally I thought it was an ear tag or something like that,"
Eric Ganzert told The 7.30 Report.  "There was probably about a
third of it sticking out. I pulled it out of the sand and
basically the sand fell away and it said,'Burke, Wills and King,
1861'.  "I showed it to my brother and started getting a bit
hysterical. He probably thought I was bitten by a snake.  "We
basically didn't know what to do, so we packed up then and there
to go back to Adelaide t