Matthew Flinders

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Matthew Flinders

Earth Sciences

#144

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Geography

#50

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earth-sciences Degrees

Matthew Flinders

Medical

#541

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Nutrition

#180

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Why Is Matthew Flinders Influential?

According to Wikipedia, Captain Matthew Flinders was a British navigator and cartographer who led the first inshore circumnavigation of mainland Australia, then called New Holland. He is also credited as being the first person to utilise the name Australia to describe the entirety of that continent including Van Diemen's Land , a title he regarded as being "more agreeable to the ear" than previous names such as Terra Australis.

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What Are Matthew Flinders's Academic Contributions?

Matthew Flinders has made the following academic contributions:

• A Voyage to Terra Australis