It’s a story that has it all: skill, heroic endeavour, capture by the French and a cat. Familiar to Australians, a new statue to Matthew Flinders at Euston aims to bring his reputation home Today a ...

Matthew Flinders buried on 23rd July 1814 circumnavigated the continent Flinders resting place had been subject to much speculation He is a hero for many Australians with streets, towns named after ...

As the British navigator is reburied with pomp and ceremony in his village church, Aboriginal Australians call for respect for the ‘incredibly brave’ man who made the voyage possible For someone who ...

Flinders was born in England on March 16, 1774. He joined the navy at 15 and served under William Bligh on a trip to Tahiti in 1791. He fought against the French in the naval battle of the Glorious ...

HE gave Australia its name. He was the first to sail all its shores. Now the grave of Captain Matthew Flinders must make way for a rail bypass. Archaeologists working at a disused cemetery in London ...

In 1801, there was no internet for English explorer Matthew Flinders to use for reference or pleasure when starting his epic quest to sail around what we now know as Australia. But he did have his ...

You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. The body of the famous British explorer who helped name and was the first to circumnavigate ...

Having completed the circumnavigation of the great land mass he named ‘Australia’ and having proved at last that it was an island continent, Matthew Flinders and his men said goodbye to Sydney just ...

In his cramped cell he was finishing a letter to Joseph Banks, who three and a half decades before had joined James Cook’s exploration of the South Pacific on the ship Endeavour and who was now the ...

Pallbearers from the Royal Navy's state ceremonial team carry the coffin of Capt Matthew Flinders A 19th Century explorer credited with mapping and naming Australia has been laid to rest in the ...

For Indonesian tourist Jia Zulkarnaen and her family, Flinders Street Station was on her list of must-visits in Melbourne. It was not the famous clocks or the heritage station itself that captured her ...