Matthew Flinders
From: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
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Date: 2008
Matthew Flinders 1774-1814, English naval captain and hydrographer, noted for his charting and coast surveys of Australia and Tasmania. From 1795 to 1799 and again from 1801 to 1803 he made valuable maps and charts of the water and coasts, circumnavigating both Australia and Tasmania. He is said to have been the first to perceive and correct compass errors caused by iron ships. He wrote A Voyage to Terra Australis (1814). Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie was his grandson.
Bibliography: See biography by J. D. Mack (1966); study by M. Colwell (1970).
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