Matthew Flinders circumnavigated the entire coastline of Australia between December 1801 and June 1803.
Matthew Flinders was the first known European to circumnavigate Australia.
Matthew Flinders circumnavigated the entire continent of Australia in 1801-1802.
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Matthew Flinders was the first person to circumnavigate Australia, which he did between December 1801 and June 1803.
Captain Matthew Flinders was the first person to circumnavigate Australia and declare it a continent. He married Ann Chappelle in 1801.
Captain Matthew Flinders was the first person to circumnavigate Australia and declare it a continent. He married Ann Chappelle in 1801.
This was Matthew Flinders. Matthew Flinders's circumnavigation of Australia was undertaken between December 1801 and June 1803. On this journey, he discovered that Australia was a single continent, and not split by a large gulf or river, as had been theorised.
The first known explorer to circumnavigate the Australian continent was Matthew Flinders. Flinders sailed around Australia in the ship The Investigator between 1801 and 1803, filling in many of the gaps left by previous explorers. Flinders was the one who first proposed the name "Australia" for the continent.
Matthew Flinders had at least one younger brother Samuel Ward Flinders who also entered the Royal Navy. On Matthew Flinders main voyage to chart and circumnavigate the Australian continent, Samuel accompanied his older brother as 2nd Lieutenant. Flinders also had 2 younger step-sisters: Susan and Hannah.
Matthew Flinders was on board a small sloop/sailing-ship named the Norfolk when he saw Redcliffe, July 1799.It was the same ship he had previously used to circumnavigate Tasmania.
In 1798, George Bass and Matthew Flinders circumnavigated Van Diemen's Land (now Tasmania, Australia's island state) in the sloop Norfolk, proving that it was an island.
Explorers George Bass and Matthew Flinders were the first to circumnavigate what was then known as Van Diemen's Land (now Tasmania).