List of Famous people with last name Flinders

Matthew Flinders

First Name Matthew
Last Name Flinders
Born on March 16, 1774
Died on July 19, 1814 (aged 40)

Captain Matthew Flinders was an English navigator and cartographer who led the first inshore circumnavigation of the landmass that is now known as Australia. 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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