Matthew Flinders served in the Royal Navy before becoming an explorer. Matthew Flinders is most known for exploring Australia and identifying it as a continent.
Matthew Flinders explored for England, even though much of his valuable charting and mapping was done to further knowledge of the Australian coastline.
Matthew Flinders, together with George Bass, explored sections of Australia in 1798 and 1799. Between December 1801 and June 1803, Matthew Flinders also circumnavigated the continent of Australia, charting the entire coastline.
Matthew Flinders is most famous for circumnavigating the entire continent of Australia. He and George Bass explored the coastline South of Sydney, and together they made the discovery that Van Diemen's land (now Tasmania) was a separate island, and not joined to the mainland as had previously been thought.
Neither of them was born in Australia, but they both explored Australian waters. Matthew Flinders and George Bass were both born in Lincolnshire, England although they did not meet until they reached Australia.
Matthew Flinders's full name was simply Matthew Flinders.
Matthew Flinders explored by sea, so he always used a boat or ship. When exploring with George Bass, his transport was the small boat "Tom Thumb", but when circumnavigating Australia, he was in the ship "Investgator".
Matthew Flinders was born in England.
Matthew Flinders' mum was Susanah.
Matthew Flinders was a sea explorer.
Matthew Flinders - academic - was born in 1972.
Matthew Flinders' Cat was created in 2002.