Biography about matthew flinders
Biography about matthew flinders
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Flinders, Matthew (1774 - 1814)
Born on 16th March 1774 at Donington, Lincolnshire, England and died on 19th July 1814 in London.
He entered the navy in 1789.
From 1791 to 1793 he served as midshipman under William Bligh {1754-1813) on a voyage to Tahiti.
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In 1794 he saw action in H.M.S. Bellerophon at the naval battle of the 'Glorious First of June'. The next year he sailed for Port Jackson aboard H.M.S. Reliance in which George Bass (1771-1803) was surgeon.
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After their arrival in Sydney they explored Botany Bay and George's River in a boat of 2.5 metre keel called the 'Tom Thumb'. From 7th October- 1798 to 12th January 1799 Flinder's commanded the 'Norfolk' on an expedition in which he circumnavigated Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania) and thus proved it to be an island.
In March 1800 he returned to England and in 1801 published his 'Observations on the Coasts of Van Diemen's Land, on Bass's Strait and its Islands and on part of the Coast of New South Wales'.
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