The voyage of the Investigator, 1801-1803, Captain Matthew Flinders, R.N.
Author : K. A. Austin
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Category : Investigator (Sloop)
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Author : K. A. Austin
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Page : pages
File Size : 32,13 MB
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Category : Investigator (Sloop)
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Author : K. A. Austin
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Page : 250 pages
File Size : 36,82 MB
Release : 1964
Category : Australia
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Brief mention of contacts - King Georges Sound, Coffins Bay (S.A.), Mornington (Vic.), Great Sandy Is., Shoalwater Bay (Qld.); fireplaces, heaps of shell, fish bones, bark containers observed at Port Phillip (by Robert Brown); p.164-170; Macassan remains - Sweers, Bentincks Island, Pellew Group; rock paintings, Chasm Island; Hostilities, Blue Mud Bay; Contact with Macassan proas, Malay Road, N.W. Arnhem Land.
Author : Kenneth Ashurst Austin
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Page : 222 pages
File Size : 26,56 MB
Release : 1968
Category : Australia
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Author : Matthew Flinders
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Author : Kenneth Morgan
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 745 pages
File Size : 39,34 MB
Release : 2020-02-06
Category : History
ISBN : 1351814400
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.
Author : Matthew Flinders
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Page : 454 pages
File Size : 50,76 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Australia
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Author : Matthew Flinders
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Page : pages
File Size : 13,16 MB
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Author : Kenneth Morgan, Dr
Publisher : Hakluyt Society
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 12,48 MB
Release : 2022-02-28
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ISBN : 9781032294285
This two-volume work provides the first edited publication of Matthew Flinders's fair journals from the first 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. This edition has a substantial introduction and textual introduction complemented with photographic excerpts from Flinders's survey sheets, maps of the voyage, and illustrations of the botanical and artistic work undertaken.
Author : KENNETH. MORGAN
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Page : pages
File Size : 16,98 MB
Release : 2022
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ISBN : 9781032294315
Author : Matthew Flinders
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Page : 10 pages
File Size : 29,39 MB
Release : 1966
Category : Australia
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