Matthew Flinders
English navigator and cartographer (1774-1814) · United Kingdom · Historical Figures · Died at 40
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Something wrong?Captain Matthew Flinders was an English Royal Navy officer, navigator and cartographer who led the first inshore circumnavigation of mainland Australia, then called New Holland.
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Chart of Van Diemen's Land (now called Tasmania) produced by Matthew Flinders
1799 Flinders Expedition plaque at Mount Beerburrum, one of the Glass House Mountains in Queensland, Australia
Flinders in 1801, a miniature portrait on ivory
The voyages of Flinders aboard HMS Investigator
St James's Gardens, tinted green and shown west of Euston railway station, on an 1890 Bacon Traveler's Pocket Map of London by George Washington Bacon
Church of St Mary and the Holy Rood, Donington, Lincolnshire, where Flinders was baptised, and was reburied in 2024
View of Port Jackson taken from the South by William Westall; engraving from Flinders' A Voyage to Terra Australis, published in 1814Family
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Captain Matthew Flinders was an English Royal Navy officer, navigator and cartographer who led the first inshore circumnavigation of mainland Australia, then called New Holland. He is also credited as being the first person to utilise the name Australia to describe the entirety of that continent including Van Diemen's Land, a title he regarded as being "more agreeable to the ear" than previous names such as Terra Australis.
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