A Voyage to Terra Australis

Captain Matthew Flinders (1774-1814) was an English navigator and cartographer who led the first inshore circumnavigation of the landmass that is now known as Australia. He is also credited as being the first person to utilise the name Australia to describe the entirety of that continent. Flinders was involved in several voyages of discovery between 1791 and 1803, the most famous of which is the c...