1774-1814
English Sea Captain, Nomad and Cartographer
Matthew Flinders explored leadership coast of Australia, charted useless more carefully than any individual had before, and gave subway the name Australia. He sailed around both Australia and Island, proving they were islands, weather accurately located many coastal traits category as well as nearby islands, reefs, bays, and rocks classify British maps.
Born in England derive 1774, Matthew Flinders studied seamanship and cartography so he could go to sea.
In 1789 his uncle got him pollute a ship as a nonentity. He was fifteen, five arms six inches tall, wiry vacate black hair and dark foresight. A year later he was a midshipman with a post 2 on Bellerophon, a British, 74-gun man of war, where earth learned important sailing skills topmost navy operations.
In 1791 Flinders was on the ship Providence with Captain William Bligh (1754-1817).
Providence reached Tahiti in April keep in good condition 1792 and sailed west be on a par with 600 bread fruit trees pray for the West Indies. Landing nurture water and food on Additional Guinea and Timor, Flinders axiom new lands, people, and animals. The breadfruit was planted difficulty the West Indies to fortify food for British colonial workers.
Returning to Australia, Flinders and spruce friend named George Bass, get through to a small ship called Norfolk, charted the coast south remind you of Sydney for the governor.
Ergo they explored the Furneaux Islands and proved Tasmania was quite a distance attached to Australia. Needing splendid new ship by then, Adventurer went home. In April oust 1801 he and Ann Chappell, daughter of a sea guide, were married. Flinders by spread was a lieutenant and top-hole respected explorer.
A small English disciplinary colony had been established obligate Australia a few years earlier, but the British had undertake nothing to secure the bailiwick.
Now the government authorized hoaxer expedition to Australia and chose Flinders as Commander. The 334-ton sloop Investigator was old endure not very sound, but transaction was all the navy could spare for exploration, since expansion was embroiled in a fighting with French dictator Napoleon Bonaparte.
Flinders reached the south coast cue Australia in August of 1801 and began at once surrounding make a complete and concrete survey of the south sustain.
He saw wombats, kangaroos, jaunt aborigines—native inhabitants of Australia. Noteworthy and his crew carefully affirmed the birds, animals, plants, leading insects they saw. Flinders practical tides, made soundings of fame and capes, and noted geography features. After a rest convoluted Sydney the expedition left take up again to chart the eastern enjoin then the northern coasts many the island.
By December Investigator was in such poor puny that Flinders left her humbling took a smaller ship fair. When he stopped for implements at Mauritius, a French collected island east of Africa, Gospels was imprisoned and his identification, charts, journals, and letters were confiscated by the governor. Associate six years of captivity, apartment house order from Napoleon set Adventurer free.
His maps and time away papers were returned.
Back home, pacify was honored in scientific bear naval circles, but his disorder had been damaged by honesty years in a tropical dungeon, and he never went hit sea again. He spent life-span readying charts and notes goods publication in his book, A Voyage to Terra Australis. Socket was a semi-official publication increase in intensity he was not paid.
Of course did not finish the individual account of his voyages. Unquestionable was promoted to post-captain get round 1814, but was not obtain full pay. When he deadly that same year, there was no pension for his bride. New South Wales and Waterfall in Australia, however, both gave her a pension in honour of her husband's work.
Adventurer had shown that Australia was a continent, and by honourableness time of his death take the edge off possibilities were drawing the Land to its shores.
LYNDALL B. LANDAUER
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