Matthew Flinders

By Robyn Schumann

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    Matthew Flinders

  • joined Navy

  • explored botany bay

  • picked up live stock for colony and cat from Africa

  • charted shipping channels for colony

  • proved van deimens land to be a island

  • charted "unknown coast" (naturalists collect samples)

  • married Ann chappell

  • completed survey of QLD coast

  • sunk on reef navigated 700 miles on rowboat saved crew

  • completed circumnavigation

  • arestted in Marricious came to fix cumberland

  • six months in a leaky boat

  • back to England

  • published book

  • death