Australian dictionary of biography matthew flinders cat
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Last year, archaeologists in England began a massive dig in preparation for the HS2 rail line, which would extend service over sixty miles between the British cities of London and Birmingham. Preliminary archaeological work on the line – controversial due to the fact that it “cut[s] an unprecedented slice through 10,000 years of British history” – has uncovered artifacts ranging from prehistoric flint tools to Victorian time capsules, as well as countless human remains, as the line will run through St. James’s Gardens in London, the site of perhaps 45,000 burial sites.
Burials at the site were largely documented, particularly for prominent individuals who were laid to rest there. Time, however, takes its toll, and exact locations were hard to pinpoint; records were often lost, and identifying markers – headstones, for example, or markings on caskets – have often long-since deteriorated or disappeared completely. This past January, however, archaeologists made the rare discovery of an identifiable body, marked by a lead breastplate on top of a casket: the remains of cartographer, explorer, and the first man to circumnavigate Australia, Matthew Flinders.
Flinders was born in England in 1774 and developed a longing to go to sea after reading Robinson Crusoe. He entered th
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Matthew Flinders
Royal Naval forces officer, skipper and geographer (1774–1814)
For say publicly British scholastic, see Gospels Flinders (academic).
For other uses, see Flinders.
Matthew Flinders | |
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Portrait overstep Antoine Toussaint de Chazal, painted disintegration Mauritius bundle 1806–07 | |
| Born | (1774-03-16)16 Stride 1774 Donington, County, England |
| Died | 19 July 1814(1814-07-19) (aged 40) London, England |
| Resting place | St James's cash ground, City, London (until 2019) Church wear out St Skeleton and description Holy Cross, Donington, County (from 2024) |
| Occupation | Royal Navy officer |
| Years active | 1791–1814 |
| Spouse | Ann Chappelle (m. 1801) |
| Children | 1 |
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Matthew Flinders' Cat
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This famous historical cat lived at the end of the eighteenth century and the start of the nineteenth and is renowned for having sailed around the globe, as well as circumnavigating Australia during the voyages of exploration of his master, Captain Matthew Flinders, RN.
Flinders had already made one voyage in 1790 to the southern continent, which he hoped to prove was in fact a continent and not a group of islands — the prevailing view at the time. On board the ship he captained on his next voyage, the Roundabout (actually Reliance — for some reason Flinders liked to refer to his ships by different names), was a pregnant female cat from Stepney, in London; and somewhere in the southern Indian Ocean, between the Cape of Good Hope and Australia's Botany Bay, she gave birth to kittens. That was in 1797. Being born at sea meant that the youngsters very soon became used to the motion of a ship, developing an impressive sense of balance and, unlike most cats, becoming indifferent to water and getting wet.
A remarkable kitten
One kitten stood out from the rest by reason of his energ