Captain Mattew Flinders was born on 16th March 1774 in Donington, United Kingdom, and he died on 19th July 1814 (aged 40 years) in London, England. Mattew was an English cartographer and navigator who was the leader of the expedition which took the first circumnavigation of Australia and recognized it as a continent. Mattew undertook three voyages to the oceans in the South. It is in the third voyage that he circumnavigated the mainland with an aboriginal man called Bungaree. He decided to call the entire landmass ‘Australia’.
Do you know: Mattew wrote a full account of his voyage and an atlas for publication which he called ‘A Voyage to Terra Australis’. He died a day after the book and the atlas were published at the age of 40.
