The Life & Times of Matthew Flinders R.N.

Talk given at the 2025 BNRA Symposium on the career of Captain Matthew Flinders RN. Cartographer and circumnavigator of Australia and Tasmania. Discusses Sir Joseph Banks, William Bligh, The Battle of the Glorious First of June, George Bass, the voyage of the Norfolk, HMS Investigator, Race to chart Australia with Nicolas Baudin and Felix Hamelin in Le Geographie and Le Natraliste. Governor John Hunter, Philip Gidley King, Bungaree, the first Australian to circumnavigate Australia. Shipwreck and detention in Mauritius.