Captain Matthew Flinders (1774-1814) was an illustrious English navigator and cartographer who led the first circumnavigation of Australia and identified it as a continent. Flinders is best known for his seminal work 'A Voyage to Terra Australis', a two-volume tome published in 1814. In this expeditionary narrative, Flinders chronicles his journey between 1801 and 1803, which was pivotal in mappin...