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Matthew Flinders
English navigator and cartographer (1774-1814)
Details
- Instance of
- human
- Born
- 16 March 1774
- Died
- 19 July 1814
- Place of birth
- Donington
- Place of death
- London
- Sex or gender
- male
- Given name
- Matthew
- Family name
- Flinders
- Father
- Matthew Flinders
- Mother
- Susannah Ward
- Spouse
- Ann Chappelle
- Child
- Anne Flinders
- Field of work
- botany, navigation
- Occupation
- explorer, cartographer, botanist, navigator, seafarer
- described by source
- Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1969–1978), Dictionary of National Biography, 1885–1900, Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, The Nuttall Encyclopædia, Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
- educated at
- The Thomas Cowley High School
- has works in the collection
- State Library of New South Wales, Australian National Maritime Museum, Yale Center for British Art, Het Scheepvaartmuseum
- languages spoken, written or signed
- English
- military branch
- Royal Navy
- military, police or special rank
- captain
- name in native language
- Matthew Flinders
- notable work
- A Voyage to Terra Australis
- owner of
- Trim
- participant in
- Flinders expedition
- place of burial
- Euston Station
- topic's main category
- Category:Matthew Flinders
- writing language
- English
Connected on Wikidata
Author of
- A Voyage to Terra Australis
- A Voyage to Terra Australis, volume 1
- Letter written on the island of Mauritius by Matthew Flinders, March 1807
- Matthew Flinders: Journal on HMS 'Investigator', vol. 1, 1801-1802
- A Voyage to Terra Australis, volume 2
- A Voyage to Terra Australis, volume 1
- A Voyage to Terra Australis, volume 2
- A Voyage to Terra Australis
- A Voyage to Terra Australis
- A Voyage to Terra Australis
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