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Matthew Flinders

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Matthew Flinders 1774-1814 British naval officer and explorer who was the first to circumnavigate Australia, publishing an illustrated account of his expedition, A Voyage to Terra Australis (1814) on ... Read more

Matthew Flinders

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Matthew Flinders 1774-1814 English Sea Captain, Explorer and Cartographer Matthew Flinders explored the coast of Australia, charted it more carefully than any explorer had before, and gave it the name... Read more

Matthew Flinders

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Matthew Flinders Born March 16, 1774, Lincolnshire, England Died July 19, 1814, England Matthew Flinders was inspired to go to sea as a young boy when he read Robinson Crusoe, Daniel Defoe’s c... Read more

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Matthew Flinders

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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, ... Read more

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Australia's Kangaroo Island paradise abounds with wildlife

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Kingscote, Australia (dpa) - A kangaroo is not the first thing visitors to Kangaroo Island usually see. The marsupial may have given the place in South Australia, its name, ... Read more