Pasley and Flinders survived, with Flinders deciding to pursue a preference for exploratory rather than military naval commissions. Flinders' desire for...
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in honour of the explorer Matthew Flinders. The catchment is sparsely populated and mostly undeveloped. The Flinders rises on the western slopes of the...
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Flinders Group National Park (Cape York Peninsula Aboriginal Land) is a national park in Queensland (Australia), 1,745 km northwest of Brisbane. The national...
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formed Camp CXIX (Camp 119) on the banks of the Bynoe River, an arm of the Flinders River delta, which Wills had noticed to be salty and tidal. Knowing that...
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commanded by Matthew Flinders, also engaged in charting the coastline, at Encounter Bay in what is now South Australia. Flinders informed Baudin of his...
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scientific nature of the expedition, Flinders was issued with a French passport, despite England and France then being at war. Flinders first sailed along the...
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Matthew Flinders, an English navigator who discovered the cause of deviation in magnetic compasses, and pointed the way to a solution, 1805–14. "Flinders Peak"...
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Matthew Flinders expedition on 15 January 1802. Flinders's journal entries are considered to be the first written records of the lake. Flinders observed...
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of the journey, causing Flinders to refer to it in his book A Voyage to Terra Australis as "this excellent timekeeper". Flinders was taken prisoner-of-war...
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botanical collector for Banks. In 1800, however, Matthew Flinders put to Banks a proposal for an expedition that would answer the question whether New Holland...
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Herstmonceux-Board of Longitude Papers, RGO 14/51: 18 f.172). Flinders, Matthew. "Letter from Matthew Flinders originally enclosing a chart of 'New Holland' (Australia)"...
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1826) was an Austrian botanical illustrator who travelled on Matthew Flinders' expedition to Australia. Bauer was born in Feldsberg in 1760, the youngest son...
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John McDouall Stuart (redirect from Stuart Expedition 1861-1862)
to Port Lincoln for several years before moving again to the northern Flinders Ranges where he worked for the wealthy pastoralists William Finke, James...
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HMS Investigator Anchors (redirect from Flinders' Anchors)
important voyages of discovery and the naming of Australia by Matthew Flinders. Flinders circumnavigated Australia and confirmed its island status after many...
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Hughenden, Queensland (category Shire of Flinders (Queensland))
region includes the local government area of the Shire of Flinders, including Dutton River, Flinders River, Mount Sturgeon, Caledonia, Richmond, Corfield,...
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It was named by Matthew Flinders after his encounter on 8 April 1802 with Nicolas Baudin, the commander of the Baudin expedition of 1800–03. It is the site...
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visited by only two other British explorers, George Vancouver and Matthew Flinders. He then took Mermaid into Oyster Harbour, remaining there for nearly two...
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Mount Hopeless / Maiurru Mitha Vambata is in the Flinders Ranges in South Australia, south-west of Lake Blanche. It is little more than a stony rise of...
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was excavated by John Shae Perring in 1837, Lepsius in 1843 and then by Flinders Petrie later in the nineteenth century, who located the mortuary temple...
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scholars continued this numbering scheme for ease of reference. Petrie, Flinders; Currelly, Charles Trick (1906). Researches in Sinai. ATLA monograph preservation...
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lifestyle, were shipped off in early 1832 to Flinders Island to live in imposed exile. On a later expedition as a guide for Robinson, Eumarrah became ill...
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Queen Victoria Market, but not the Flagstaff Gardens, and the area between Flinders Street and the Yarra River. It includes the grand boulevardes of St Kilda...
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of mainland town Elliston. It was named by Matthew Flinders after his younger brother Samuel Flinders, the second lieutenant on HMS Investigator in 1802...
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Freycinet and was an outcome of the Baudin expedition to Australia. It preceded the publication of Matthew Flinders' map of Australia, Terra Australis or Australia...
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Estensen, Miriam (2002). The Life of Matthew Flinders. Allen & Unwin. p. 354. ISBN 1-74114-152-4. Flinders was not the first to use the name Australia...
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north he reached before turning back, but somewhere in the Flinders Ranges. The second expedition, in August, sailed to Port Lincoln, and struck out west...
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Vulkathunha-Gammon Ranges National Park (category Flinders Ranges)
The Vulkathunha-Gammon Ranges National Park is a protected area in the Flinders Ranges of South Australia, immediately south-west of and adjacent to the...
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last convict ship arrived in 1848. In 1798–99 George Bass and Matthew Flinders set out from Sydney in a sloop and circumnavigated Tasmania, thus proving...
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Wilpena Pound (category Flinders Ranges)
fossilised in SA's Flinders Ranges, is our oldest known ancestor ABC News, 4 April 2020. Retrieved 4 April 2020. Bushwalking in Flinders Ranges National...
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Streaky Bay, South Australia (redirect from Flinders, South Australia)
Streaky Bay (formerly Flinders) is a coastal town on the western side of the Eyre Peninsula, in South Australia just off the Flinders Highway, 303 km (188 mi)...
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