Matthew Flinders

Matthew Flinders (March 16th 1774 - July 19th 1814) is a navigator and exploring Britannique. It was one of the most remarkable navigators and cartographers of his time.

In a career which hardly lasted more than twenty years, he travelled with the captain William Bligh, made the turn of the Australia, encouraging the choice of this name to indicate this new continent, survived a shipwreck and was made prisoner as spy, discovered and corrected the effects of ferrous metals on the compasses of navigation, wrote a major book on the discovery of Australia: has Voyage To Terra Australis .

Biography

It was born with Donington, in the Lincolnshire. Very young person it was impassioned for the great discoveries with the reading of Robinson Crusoë and, at the 15 years age, it engaged in the " Royal Navy" , being useful as sailor on the " Bellerophon" under the orders of the Pasley captain who recommended it to the Bligh captain with which it sailed on the " Providence" , transporting fruits with bread between Tahiti and the Jamaica.

Later, Flinders went as far as Australia on the " Reliance" , being fine navigator and cartographer and, in 1795, it explored the coast around Sydney in a small boat called " Tom Thumb" (Tom Inch). In 1798, with Low George, it made it tower of the proving Tasmanie thus that it was indeed an island. The passage between continent and Tasmanie was appelè Détroit of Bottom whereas one of the islands was called Flinders Island.

July 17th, 1799, it accosted in the Baie Moreton between Redcliffe and Brighton. It posed foot with " Pumicestone Passage" , " Redcliffe" and " Coochiemudlo Island" and went up until Clontarf. It is him which during this voyage gave its name to Redcliffe. (Red Cliffs wants to say " cliffs rouges").

The Flinders April 17th, 1801 married Ann Chappell but it was constrained to leave his young wife quickly because the British government returned it to Australia. It left in July to the orders the " Investigator" to make a detailed chart of contours of Australia, the southern part was unknown at the time. Between December 1801 and June 1803 Flinders made the turn of Australia, tracing the majority of the coastal charts requested including the Grande Australian bay and the Golfe of Carpentarie.

Left England in July, it reached Cape Leeuwin on December 6th and began its statement while going towards the east, reaching Fowlers Bay on January 28th, 1802.

April 8th, 1802, Flinders, sailing towards the east the French explorer Nicolas Baudin met which sailed towards the west on board Geographer. The two men had been sent by their respective governments independently to make the statement of the southern parts of Australia. They exchanged the details of their respective discoveries and sailed together towards Sydney to restock itself. Thereafter, Flinders called their meeting place, close to Kangaroo Island, Encounter Bay.

In June 1803, the hull of Investigator was damaged so much that Flinders was obliged to stop his statements of the northern coast to return to Sydney by the west coast and S south, thus closing its full rotation of Australia.

Flinders embarked for England on board " Porpoise" in order to bring back a new vessel and to finish its statements but its ship ran up a reef in the Grande barrier of coral. Flinders succeeds in bringing back the broken ship to Sydney, 700 miles from there, and organized the rescue of the crew which it had left on Wreck Reef.

Flinders again tried to return to England on board another boat, the " Cumberland" but the boat was in so bad condition that Flinders was obliged to make stopover on December 17th with the Mauritius to make it repair. What Flinders did not know it is that England was again in war against France and the French governor of the island, the general Of Caen, retained Flinders as prisoner of war. Flinders wrote with his government which contacted the French government to take advantage of the rights of Flinders and the French government asked for the release of the British. In spite of that, Of Caen refused to slacken Flinders who had to remain prisoner. This situation was due to incomprehension and the reciprocal antipathy between the two men so that Flinders remained prisoner during nearly seven years. Flinders could finally return to England in October 1810, in bad health in consequence of his imprisonment. He put himself at once to write his book has Voyage to Terra Australis . July 18th, 1814, the book was published. 19, Matthew Flinders died. It was 40 years old.

Flinders was the first European explorer to visit the chain of the You Yangs close to Geelong. May 1st, 1802, accompanied by three of its men, it climbed on the culminating point of the chain which it called " Peak" station;. This name was then changed into Flinders Peak in his honor.

He are regarded as the principal explorer of Australia and of many sites, establishments and monuments Australian bear its name

References

  • K.A. Austin: The Travels off the Investigator, 1801-1803, Commander Matthew Flinders, R.N. - Adelaide: Rigby Limited, 1964

  • Sidney J. Baker: My Own Destroyer: biography Matthew Flinders has off, to explore and navigator . - Sydney: Currawong Publishing Company, 1962
  • Miriam Estensen: Matthew Flinders: The Life off Matthew Flinders . - Crows Nest, NSW: Allen & Unwin, 2002. - ISBN 1-86508-515-4
  • Tim Flannery: Matthew Flinders' Great Adventures in the Circumnavigation off Australia Terra Australis . - Melbourne: Text Publishing Company, 2001. - ISBN 1-876485-92-2
  • Fornasiero, Jean; Monteath, Peter and West-Sooby, John. Encountering Terra Australis: the Australian voyages off Nicholas Baudin and Matthew Flinders , Kent Town, South Australia, Wakefield Near, 2004. ISBN 1-86254-625-8
  • Geoffrey C. Ingleton: Matthew Flinders: navigator and chartmaker . - Guilford, Surrey: Genesis Publications in association with Hedley Australia, 1986
  • James D. Mack: Matthew Flinders 1774-1814 . - Melbourne: Nelson, 1966
  • Geoffrey Rawson: Matthew Flinders' Narration off his Voyage in the Schooner Francis 1798, preceded and followed by notes one Flinders, Low, the wreck off the Sidney Cove, &c. - London: Cockerel golden delicious Near, 1946
  • Ernest Scott: The Life off Captain Matthew Flinders, RN . - Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1914

External bonds

  • The Matthew Flinders Electronic Files off At the State Library New South Wales.

  • The Flinders Papers At the National the U.K. Maritime Museum
  • Related literature (Project Gutenberg Australia).
  • Naming off Australia
  • Matthew Flinders' map off Australia High image resolution off the supplements map.
  • Another view off the statue off Matthew Flinders in his village off birth Donington, Lincs
  • detail off Trim the cat
  • Flinder' S Journeys - State Library off NSW
  • H. Mr. Cooper, “Flinders, Matthew (1774 - 1814)”, [[Australian Dictionary off Biography], Volume 1, Melbourne University Close, 1966, p 389-391.]
  • Biography At BBC Radio operator Lincolnshire
  • his genealogy one geneanet

Sources

  • anglophone Wikipedia

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