Get to know Matthew Flinders - Navigator at half-day museum symposium

6:05 AM Fri 22 Oct 2010 GMT

'Matthew Flinders' .

He is the man credited with giving Australia it's name, and on Sunday 31 October 2010 the Australian National Maritime Museum has invited four eminent speakers to join in celebrating the life and achievements of Matthew Flinders. From 1801-1803 English navigator and map-maker Matthew Flinders became the first known European to circumnavigate Australia and survey the entire coastline on board his ship Investigator. From this and previous voyages Flinders created the first complete chart of the continent which contained the first known use of the name 'Australia'. This famous chart, which bore the words 'I call the whole island Australia ...

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by Australian National Maritime Museum