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Flinders, Matthew ( - )
Born on 16th March at Donington, Lincolnshire, England and died on 19th July in London.
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He entered the navy in From to he served as midshipman under William Bligh {) on a voyage to Tahiti. In he saw action in H.M.S. Bellerophon at the naval battle of the 'Glorious First of June'. The next year he sailed for Port Jackson aboard H.M.S.
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Reliance in which George Bass () was surgeon. After their arrival in Sydney they explored Botany Bay and George's River in a boat of metre keel called the 'Tom Thumb'. From 7th October- to 12th January Flinder's commanded the 'Norfolk' on an expedition in which he circumnavigated Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania) and thus proved it to be an island.
In March he returned to England and in published his 'Observations on the Coasts of Van Diemen's Land, on Bass's Strait and its Islands and on part of the Coast of New South Wales'.
Flinders was promoted commander and appointed as captain of H.M.S.
Investigator. In April he