Matthew Flinders

Matthew Flinders (16 March 1774 - 19 July 1814) was one of the most accomplished navigators and chartmakers of his age. In a career that spanned just over twenty years, he sailed with Captain William Bligh, circumnavigated and named Australia, survived shipwreck and disaster only to be imprisoned as a spy, identified and corrected the effect of iron ships upon compass readings, and wrote the seminal work on Australian exploration A Voyage To Terra Australis.

References

• Ernest Scott: The Life of Captain Matthew Flinders, RN. ? Sydney : Angus & Robertson, 1914
• Geoffrey Rawson: Matthew Flinders' Narrative of his Voyage in the Schooner Francis 1798, preceded and followed by notes on Flinders, Bass, the wreck of the Sidney Cove, &c. ? London : Golden Cockerel Press, 1946
• Sidney J. Baker: My Own Destroyer : a biography of Matthew Flinders, explorer and navigator. ? Sydney : Currawong Publishing Company, 1962
• K. A. Austin: The Voyage of the Investigator, 1801-1803, Commander Matthew Flinders, R.N. ? Adelaide : Rigby Limited, 1964
• James D. Mack: Matthew Flinders 1774?1814. ? Melbourne : Nelson, 1966
• Geoffrey C. Ingleton: Matthew Flinders : navigator and chartmaker. ? Guilford, Surrey : Genesis Publications in association with Hedley Australia, 1986
• Tim Flannery: Matthew Flinders' Great Adventures in the Circumnavigation of Australia Terra Australis. ? Melbourne : Text Publishing Company, 2001. ? ISBN 1876485922
• Miriam Estensen: Matthew Flinders : The Life of Matthew Flinders. ? Crows Nest, NSW : Allen & Unwin, 2002. ? ISBN 1865085154