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3. Introduction
Captain of the ship
Early life
Commander of the Investigator
Family life
Exploration
Attempt to return
Trim
Books
Legacy
Amazing facts
Contents
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4. Captain Matthew Flinders RN (16 March 1774 – 19 July 1814) was a
distinguished navigator and cartographer.
Flinders made three voyages to the southern ocean (August 1791 –
August 1793, February 1795 – August 1800 and July 1801 – October
1810).
• He made lots of voyages with George Bass and made very important
discoveries.
Introduction
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Matthew Flinders
Born 16 March 1774
Donington, Lincolnshire,
England
Died 19 July 1814 (aged 40)
London, England
Occupation Royal Navy Ships Officer
Spouse(s) Ann
Chappelle (m. 1801; his
death 1814)
Children Anne
Captain of the ship
6. Early life
Flinders was born in Donington, Lincolnshire, England, the son of Matthew Flinders,
a surgeon, and his wife Susannah
Initially serving on HMS Alert, he transferred to HMS Scipio, and in July 1790 was
made midshipman on HMS Bellerophon under Captain Pasley. By Pasley's
recommendation
Flinders' first voyage to New South Wales, and first trip to Port Jackson, was in
1795 as a midshipman aboard HMS Reliance, carrying the newly
appointed Governor of New South Wales Captain John Hunter
And became friends with the ship's surgeon George Bass who was three years his
senior and had been born 11 miles (18 km) from Donington.
Not long after their arrival in Port Jackson, Bass and Flinders made two
expeditions in small open boats, both named Tom Thumb: the first to Botany
Bay and Georges River, the second, in a larger Tom Thumb, south from Port
Jackson to Lake Illawarra.
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Memorial at Flinders, Victoria commemorating the
discovery of Western Port on 4 January 1798, by
George Bass and the later passage of Bass Strait by
Bass and Flinders in the same year.
The passage between the Australian mainland and
Tasmania enabled savings of several days on the
journey from England, and was named Bass Strait.
8. Commander of the Investigator
in January 1801, Flinders was given command of the Investigator, a
334-ton sloop, and promoted to Commander the following month.
The Investigator set sail for New Holland on 18 July 1801. Attached to
the expedition was the botanist Robert Brown, botanical
artist Ferdinand Bauer and landscape artist William Westall.
Due to the scientific nature of the expedition, Flinders was issued with
a French passport, despite England and France then being at war.
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9. Family life
On 17 April 1801, Flinders had married longtime
friend Ann Chappelle (1772–1852).
Ann was obliged to stay in England and would not
see her husband for nine years.
Matthew and Ann had one daughter, Anne, born 1
April 1812, who later married William Petrie (1821–
1908) and was the mother of the eminent
archaeologist and Egyptologist, William Matthew
Flinders Petrie.
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Exploration of the Australian coastal line
On 8 April 1802, while sailing
east, Flinders sighted
the Géographe, a French corvette
commanded by the
explorer Nicolas Baudin,
who was on a
similar expedition for his
government.
Both men of science, Flinders and Baudin met and exchanged details of their
discoveries, Flinders named the bay Encounter Bay.
Proceeding along the coast Flinders explored Port Phillip, which unbeknownst to him
had been discovered only 10 weeks earlier by John Murray aboard the Lady Nelson
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Flinders scaled Arthur's Seat, the highest point near the shores of the
southernmost parts of the bay, where the ship had entered through The Heads.
From there he saw a vast view of the surrounding land and bays.
Having hastily prepared the ship, Flinders set sail again on 22 July, heading north
and surveying the coast of Queensland. From there he passed through
the Torres Strait, and explored the Gulf of Carpentaria
On the way, Flinders jettisoned two wrought iron anchors, which were found by
divers in 1973 at Middle Island,Recherche Archipelago, Western Australia
Arriving in Sydney on 9 June 1803, the Investigator was subsequently judged to
be unseaworthy and condemned.
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Attempt to return England and imprisonment
Flinders set sail for England as a passenger
aboard HMS Porpoise. However the ship was wrecked
on Wreck Reefs, part of the Great Barrier Reef, approximately
700 miles (1127 km) north of Sydney.
Flinders then took command of the 29-ton
schooner Cumberland in order to return to England, but the
poor condition of the vessel forced him to put in at French-
controlled Mauritius for repairs on 17 December 1803.
War with France had broken out again the previous May, but Flinders hoped his
French passport (though for a different vessel) and the scientific nature of his
mission would allow him to continue on his way.
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Decaen believed Flinders' knowledge of the island's
defenses would have encouraged Britain to attempt to
capture it. Nevertheless, in June 1809 the Royal Navy
began a blockade of the island, and in June 1810
Flinders was paroled.
Travelling via the Cape of Good Hope on Olympia,
which was taking dispatches back to Britain, he
received a promotion to Post-Captain, before
continuing to England.
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In November 1804 he sent the first map of the landmass he had charted (Y46/1)
back to England. This was the only map made by Flinders where he used the
name "Australia" (in all capitals) for the title, and the first known time he used the
word "Australia“.
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Trim
Trim was a ship's cat that
accompanied Matthew Flinders on his voyages
to circumnavigate and map the coastline
of Australia in 1801-03.
Trim was born in 1799.
The kitten fell overboard, but managed to swim back
to the vessel and climb aboard by scaling a rope;
taking note of his strong survival instinct and
intelligence, Flinders and the crew made him their
favorite.
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Trim sailed with Flinders on HMS Investigator on his voyage of circumnavigation
around the Australian mainland, and survived the shipwreck of the
Porpoise on Wreck Reef in 1803.
When Flinders was accused of spying and imprisoned by the French in Mauritius on
his return voyage to England Trim shared his captivity until his unexplained
disappearance, which Flinders attributed to his being stolen and eaten by hungry
slaves.
In 1996 a bronze statue of Trim by sculptor John Cornwell was erected on a
window ledge of the Mitchell Library in Sydney, directly behind a statue of his
owner that was erected following the donation of Flinders' personal papers to the
Library by his grandson in 1925.
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The popularity of the statue has since led to the development of a range of Trim
merchandise by the State Library of New South Wales. The Library's cafe is also
named after the cat.
The plaque under it says:
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Legacy
Australia 10 Shillings 1961– 1965 ND
Banknote. Overs: Bust of Flinders
Statue of Flinders outside St Paul's
Cathedral, Melbourne
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Flinders' proposal for the use of iron bars to be used to compensate for the
magnetic deviations caused by iron on board a ship resulted in them being
known as Flinders bars.
Bass & Flinders Point in the southernmost part of Cronulla in New
South Wales features a monument to George Bass and Matthew
Flinders, who explored the Port Hacking estuary.
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Amazing Facts
Although he never once used his own name for any feature in all his discoveries,
Flinders' name is now associated with over 100 geographical features and places
in Australia in addition to Flinders Island, in Bass Strait.
Landmarks named after him in South Australia
In Victoria, eponymous places include Flinders Street in Melbourne,
the suburb of Flinders, the federal electorate of Flinders, and the Matthew
Flinders Girls Secondary College in Geelong.
Australia holds a large collection of statues erected in Flinders' honor, second
only in number to statues of Queen Victoria.
In his native England the first statue of Flinders was erected on 16 March 2006
(his birthday) in his hometown of Donington. The statue also depicts his beloved
cat Trim, who accompanied him on his voyages
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