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Discovering Australia: The legend and the reality of the navigator-explorer Matthew Flinders

David Hill · Gresham College

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Matthew Flinders is remembered as one of Britain’s greatest navigator-explorers. But to what extent does the legend fit the reality? In 1791 Mathew Flinders first sailed to the south-seas as a seventeen year old midshipman on a two year voyage with Captain William Bligh. Three years later he returned to Australia and in a tiny dingy named Tom Thumb explored much of Australia’s south east coast with his good friend lieutenant George Bass. Later, Flinders and Bass sailed in the Norfolk and discovered that Tasmania was a separate island from the mainland of Australia.

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  1. Discovering Australia: The legend and the reality of the navigator-explorer Matthew Flinders 2014-07-17 · YouTube

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Gresham College
Speaker
David Hill
Year
2014
Level
For everyone
Language
English
Subjects
History
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