Matthew Flinders

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Matthew Flinders - British explorer who mapped the Australian coast (1774-1814)

Flinders, Sir Matthew Flinders

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Matthew Flinders, head of marketing and business development at RMT, said: "The Chat Heroes team delivers a tailored service that can make a big difference to the ways in which companies can grow, and it has helped us turn more of the general website queries we receive into specific opportunities."

Loan is helping firm handling chat queries to talk the talk

When a statue of Captain Matthew Flinders was installed at Euston in 2014, the only regret of those who had campaigned for a memorial to the explorer -- who led the first circumnavigation of Australia -- was that his final resting place, understood to be somewhere near the London rail station, was unlikely ever to be known.

Grave of explorer Flinders discovered

Archaeologists have found the remains of Captain Matthew Flinders, a British Royal Navy explorer who was the first to sail around Australia and is credited with naming it, while working on a rail project connecting London to other cities.

Remains of Australia explorer Flinders found in London rail dig

The current name, bestowed by Matthew Flinders in the early 19th century, had previously been applied by various Dutch voyagers to islands in a number of different locations between Arnhem Land and New Guinea.

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Captain Matthew Flinders, one of Britain's most prolific explorers, known for being responsible for navigating and naming Australia was buried in the graveyard.

Archaeologists dig up 60,000 ancient skeletons buried near London's Euston Station in 230-year old cemetery; St James' Gardens, the resting place of several historic figures, is being excavated to make way for the new HS2 high-speed rail link despite campaigns against the plans

Then George Vancouver and Matthew Flinders, who was the first man to circumnavigate the new continent.

Stamps of Australia

Storm clouds were gathering as we plodded into Donington to meet Matthew Flinders, holding his telescope with his faithful cat Trim at his feet in the market square.

WALK THIS WAY; In the first of an occasional series, NIGEL HEATH sets out on the new Cross Britain walk A house in the fens and, right, Peter passes through Kirton

Beautiful Lincolnshire Belvoir Castle Matthew Flinders and his faithful cat Trim.

WALK THIS WAY; In the first of an occasional series, NIGEL HEATH sets out on the new Cross Britain walk

Fran Butt--Head of Library Services Primary, Matthew Flinders Anglican College, Queensland

Oliver and George

In the early 19th century, the Englishman Matthew Flinders and the Frenchman Nicolas Baudin were charged with the same momentous task: to complete the charting of Australia's coast.

The Great Race: The Race Between the English and the French to Complete the Map of Australia

'Putting Australian nature on the map' (four essays) looks at the roles of Joseph Banks, Sydney Parkinson, James Cook, Charles Darwin, Ferdinand Bauer, Robert Brown, Matthew Flinders, Amelie Dietrich and Georgiana Molloy.