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  • Lost Grave of First Explorer to Circumnavigate Australia Has Been Found

    07/07/2019 5:44:40 PM PDT · by robowombat · 7 replies
    Mysterious Universe ^ | January 27, 2019 | Paul Seaburn
    Lost Grave of First Explorer to Circumnavigate Australia Has Been Found Paul Seaburn January 27, 2019 Flinders Island. Flinders Ranges. Flinders Ranges National Park. Flinders Column. Flinders University. Flinders Medical Centre. Flinders Street. Flinders Peak. Flinders Bay. Flinders Highway. You’d think the guy famous enough to have hundreds of places in Australia named after him would be buried in a recognized place of honor. Yet the grave of Captain Matthew Flinders — the English navigator, leader of the first circumnavigation of Australia and first person to identify the island as a continent – has been lost since shortly after he...
  • Australians call for return of nation's 'birth certificate' from Britain

    01/25/2011 11:05:25 PM PST · by bruinbirdman · 10 replies
    The Telegraph ^ | 1/25/2011 | Bonnie Malkin, Sydney
    Australians have started a campaign calling for Britain to hand over the first map ever to refer to the nation by the word "Australia", claiming that the document is country's "birth certificate". Captain Matthew Flinders Matthew Flinders, a British explorer and cartographer, drew the map in 1804 after becoming the first European to circumnavigate Australia. It was the first time a navigator used the name "Australia" to describe the continent, which had previously been referred to as New Holland or Terra Australis. Flinders, who hailed from Lincolnshire and spent several years charting the coast of Australia, wrote a book about...