📖 #OTD in the #History of #Literature 18 July 1814, Captain #MatthewFlinders published "A Voyage to Terra Australis," which detailed his circumnavigation of #Australia. The work is the first to name the continent Australia. Sadly, Flinders passed away the following day, aged 40.
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🔴 1814 Matthew Flinders publishes "A Voyage to Terra Australis", detailing his circumnavigation of Australia, first to name the continent Australia. He dies a day later.
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#OnThisDay in 2024, 19th-century explorer #MatthewFlinders, who first circumnavigated Australia and named it, is reburied in Donington, Lincolnshire, the village of his birth.
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- British explorer who mapped the australian coast (1774-1814)
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Great to visit the Matthew Flinders exhibit yesterday. A bit smaller than expected but I was truly mesmerised by an original letter he wrote to his wife Ann. To think that bit of paper was written on so long by a hero of mine was quite something. #MatthewFlinders #legend
#MatthewFlinders’ lead coffin plate makes voyage from underground #London to #SouthAustralia
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#MatthewFlinders (1774-1814): navigator, hydrographer & scientist http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/flinders-matthew-2050 3/3
#MatthewFlinders’ description of northern Australia 2/3 blogs.crikey.com.au/northern/2008/11/22/the-...
A few facts about my position’s namesake. Ever wondered who came up with the name ‘Australia’? #MatthewFlinders www.slsa.sa.gov.au/encounter/flinders/namin... 1/3
