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About Matthew Flinders
Captain Matthew Flinders was a British Royal Navy officer, navigator and cartographer who led the first inshore circumnavigation of mainland Australia, then called New Holland. He is also credited as being the first person to utilise the name Australia to describe the entirety of that continent including Van Diemen's Land, a title he regarded as being "more agreeable to the ear" than previous names such as Terra Australis.
Everything about Matthew Flinders →- Occupation
- explorer, cartographer, botanist, navigator
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Kingdom of Great Britain
- Born
- March 16, 1774
- Died
- July 19, 1814, July 19, 1840