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Australia Circumnavigated. The Voyage of Matthew Flinders in HMS Investigator, 1801-1803 / Volume II (Hardcover)
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Australia Circumnavigated. The Voyage of Matthew Flinders in HMS Investigator, 1801-1803 / Volume II (Hardcover)
Series: Hakluyt Society, Third Series
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This two-volume work provides the first edited publication of
Matthew Flinders's fair journals from the circumnavigation of
Australia in 1801-1803 in HMS Investigator, and of the 'Memoir' he
wrote to accompany his journals and charts. These are among the
most important primary texts in Australian maritime history and
European voyaging in the Pacific. Flinders was the first explorer
to circumnavigate Australia. He was also largely responsible for
giving Australia its name. His voyage was supported by the
Admiralty, the Navy Board, the East India Company and the patronage
of Sir Joseph Banks, President of the Royal Society. Banks ensured
that the Investigator expedition included scientific gentlemen to
document Australia's flora, fauna, geology and landscape features.
The botanist Robert Brown, botanical painter Ferdinand Bauer,
landscape artist William Westall and the gardener Peter Good were
all members of the voyage. After landfall at Cape Leeuwin, Flinders
sailed anti-clockwise round the whole continent, returning to Port
Jackson when the ship became unseaworthy. After a series of
misfortunes, including a shipwreck and a long detention at the Ile
de France (now Mauritius), Flinders returned to England in 1810. He
devoted the last four years of his life to preparing A Voyage to
Terra Australis, published in two volumes, and an atlas. Flinders
died on 19 July 1814 at the age of forty. The fair journals edited
here comprise a daily log with full nautical information and
'remarks' on the coastal landscape, the achievements of previous
navigators in Australian waters, encounters with Aborigines and
Macassan trepangers, naval routines, scientific findings, and
Flinders's surveying and charting. The journals also include
instructions for the voyage and some additional correspondence. The
'Memoir' explains Flinders' methodology in compiling his journals
and charts and the purpose and content of his surveys. This edition
has a substantial introduction
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