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MSW: School kids to re-enact Flinders voyage around Aust
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AAP General News (Australia)
12-03-2001
MSW: School kids to re-enact Flinders voyage around Aust
By Ruth Peters
SYDNEY, Dec 3 AAP - About 300 school children will set sail on a 33-metre brigantine
to celebrate the epic voyage made by Matthew Flinders in 1802 as he mapped out the coastline
of Australia.
NSW Governor Marie Bashir was today on board the Windeward Bound, docked at Woolloomooloo
Wharf, Sydney to officially laun...
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