Matthew Flinders
1774-1814
British naval officer and explorer who was the first to circumnavigate Australia, publishing an illustrated account of his expedition, A Voyage to Terra Australis (1814) on ...
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Matthew Flinders
1774-1814
English Sea Captain, Explorer and Cartographer
Matthew Flinders explored the coast of Australia, charted it more carefully than any explorer had before, and gave it the name...
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Matthew Flinders
Born March 16, 1774, Lincolnshire, England Died July 19, 1814, England
Matthew Flinders was inspired to go to sea as a young boy when he read Robinson Crusoe, Daniel Defoe’s c...
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Matthew Flinders (1774-1814) was an English naval captain and hydrographer who prepared detailed charts of much of the Australian coastline.Matthew Flinders was born on March 16, 1774, at Donnington, ...
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Matthew Flinders
Matthew Flinders
Matthew Flinders