Flinders, Matthew
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Flinders, Matthew (1774–1814). Flinders accurately delineated the coasts of Australia and began the practice of using that name for it. After joining the Royal Navy in 1789, Flinders served with
Bligh before surveying the New South Wales coast in detail in 1795. In 1798–9 he and Bass circumnavigated Tasmania, proving its separation from the mainland and impressing naval and scientific opinion in Britain with his qualities as an explorer. A new scientific expedition led by him 1801–3 mapped the coasts of nearly all Australia with great accuracy, completing the basic exploration of the Pacific Ocean section of the world. Flinders became a prisoner of war of the French on his way home but was released from Mauritius in 1809.
Roy C. Bridges
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Miriam Estensen, The Life of Matthew Flinders.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Journal of Australian Studies; 3/1/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...Australis. Legend has held that Matthew Flinders, mariner and hydrographer...Estensen, author of The Life of Matthew Flinders, confirms that he did in fact...Crusoe'. I hadn't heard of Matthew Flinders until I came to Australia...
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Matthew Flinders and the North Coast of New South Wales, 1799.
Magazine article from: Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society; 12/1/1999; ; 700+ words
; Matthew Flinders stands second only to James Cook in our...Wales State Library's recent statue of Flinders' cat `Trim', at least allowing a...North Coast of New South Wales in 1799. Flinders is the second officially known and well...
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Matthew Flinders' navigational equipment: tools of the trade of the first man to circumnavigate the Australian continent.(FROM THE collection)
Magazine article from: Geographical; 8/1/2009; 700+ words
; [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Captain Matthew Flinders had such a lust for adventure that he warned his...Born in 1774 to a long line of doctors, the young Matthew Flinders was expected to follow his ancestors into the medical...
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Paul Brunton (ed.), Matthew Flinders: personal letters from an extraordinary life.
Magazine article from: Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society; 6/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...Collins. It is no wonder that Flinders' editor finds himself beguiled...editor for their significance are Flinders' letter to Sir Joseph Banks of...Library's travelling exhibition on Matthew Flinders will be touring state capitals...
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NSW: Matthew Flinders boats goes on display
Newspaper article from: AAP General News (Australia); 3/20/2001; 413 words
; ...AAP General News (Australia) 03-20-2001 NSW: Matthew Flinders boats goes on display By Roz King SYDNEY, March 20 AAP - In 1796, 21 year-old master's mate Matthew Flinders set sail from Sydney in a two-and-a-half...
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'Gratefull to providence': the diary and accounts of Matthew Flinders, surgeon, apothecary and man-midwife, 1775-1802, vol. 1: 1775-1784
Magazine article from: Medical History; 10/1/2009; ; 700+ words
; ...Gratefull to providence' : the diary and accounts of Matthew Flinders, surgeon, apothecary and man-midwife , 1775...sets of practitioners' papers have been printed. Matthew Flinders, a medical practitioner based in Donington. Lincolnshire...
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NSW: Letter written by Matthew Flinders bought for $350,000
Newspaper article from: AAP General News (Australia); 9/21/2001; 347 words
; ...2001 NSW: Letter written by Matthew Flinders bought for $350,000 SYDNEY...written by Australian explorer Matthew Flinders for a record $350,000. The...be part of the exhibition, Matthew Flinders: The Ultimate Voyage, which...
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'Well it is for me that I have books': books in the life of Matthew Flinders.
Magazine article from: Journal of Australian Studies; 1/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; Matthew Flinders would not normally be thought of as a...stimulation, and sometimes solace. Flinders reports in Voyage to Terra Australis...important part in one of the dramas of Flinders's career. In 1803, when approaching...
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SA: Art gallery buys portrait of Matthew Flinders
Newspaper article from: AAP General News (Australia); 9/26/2000; 387 words
; ...Art gallery buys portrait of Matthew Flinders ADELAIDE, Sept 26 AAP - The...size oil portrait of explorer Matthew Flinders after year-long negotiations...by the state government. "Matthew Flinders was the first to chart the coast...
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Encountering 'Terra Australis': The Australian Voyages of Nicolas Baudin and Matthew Flinders.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review; 10/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...The Australian Voyages of Nicolas Baudin and Matthew Flinders. By JEAN FORNASIERO, PETER MONTEATH, and JOHN...the young, ambitious, and equally ill-starred Matthew Flinders, who would spend seven years on Mauritius before...
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Matthew Flinders
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Matthew Flinders 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, Lincolnshire, and...
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Flinders, Matthew
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea
Flinders, Matthew (1774–1814), British navigator...the Australian mainland, but Bass and Flinders came to the conclusion, independently...Bibliography Estensen, M. , The Life of Matthew Flinders (2003).
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Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie (1853-1942) was an English archeologist who revolutionized excavation methods, thus laying the basis for modern archeological techniques. Flinders Petrie was born on June...
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Petrie, (William Matthew) Flinders
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
PETRIE, (WILLIAM MATTHEW) FLINDERS ( b . Charlton, Kent, England, 3 June 1853; d . Jerusalem, Palestine [now Israel], 28 July 1942) Egyptology, archaeology...
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Bauer, Ferdinand Lucas
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
...on the Flora in Oxford until 1801, when he joined Matthew Flinders on his voyage to Australia. There Bauer and the...Prodromus florae Norfolkicae (Vienna, 1833); Matthew Flinders, A Voyage to Terra Australis (London, 1814...
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