Becarevic Exhibition - Launch Talk: Matthew Flinders | UOW Library
Channel: UOW Library
Date: 2018-07-02

Flinder’s Voyage to Terra Australis, vol. 1 and 2, 1814

Matthew Flinders’ wrote his personal account of his travels in and around Terra Australis while he languished in prison in Mauritius.

Flinders successfully circumnavigated and mapped the continent and was en-route to England when, in 1804, he docked in Mauritius for repairs only to be arrested as a spy.

Presented by UOW Archives Manager, Grant White.