Captain Matthew Flinders RN (16 March 1774 – 19 July 1814) was one of the most accomplished navigators and cartographers of his age. In a career that spanned just over twenty years, he sailed with Captain William Bligh, circumnavigated Australia and encouraged the use of that name for the continent, survived shipwreck and disaster only to be imprisoned as a spy, … Wikipedia
This archive reproduces many of Matthew Flinders' personal papers held in the Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales. www.sl.nsw.gov.au/flinders/archive.html
Between 1796 and 1803 the English navigator and chartmaker Matthew Flinders surveyed the Australian coastline in his ship the 'Investigator'. www.nmm.ac.uk/flinders/
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