page_title: A Voyage to Terra Australis
section_title: Publications
hierarchical_section_title: A Voyage to Terra Australis / Publications
caption_attribution_description: English: Title page of Matthew Flinders (1814) A Voyage to Terra Australis: Undertaken for the Purpose of Completing the Discovery of that Vast Country, and Prosecuted in the years 1801, 1802 and 1803, in His Majesty's Ship the Investigator, and Subsequently in the Armed Vessel Porpoise and Cumberland Schooner: With an Account of the Shipwreck of the Porpoise, Arrival of the Cumberland at Mauritius, and Imprisonment of the Commander during Six Years and a Half in that Island, London&#58; &#32;Printed by W. Bulmer and Co., Cleveland-Row, and published by G. and W. Nicol, booksellers to His Majesty, Pall-Mall OCLC&#58; 1931791.&#32;
context_page_description: A Voyage to Terra Australis: Undertaken for the Purpose of Completing the Discovery of that Vast Country, and Prosecuted in the Years 1801, 1802, and 1803, in His Majesty's Ship the Investigator was a sea voyage journal written by English mariner and explorer Matthew Flinders. It describes his circumnavigation of the Australian continent in the early years of the 19th century, and his imprisonment by the French on the island of Mauritius from 1804–1810.
context_section_description: Original publications of the Atlas to Flinders' Voyage to Terra Australis are held at the Mitchell Library in Sydney, Australia, as a portfolio that accompanied the book and included engravings of 16 maps, 4 plates of views, and 10 plates of Australian flora.
  The book was republished in 3 volumes in 1966 accompanied by a reproduction of the portfolio.
  Flinders' map of Terra Australia was first published in January 1814 and the remaining maps were published before his atlas and book. On 19 July 1814, the day after the book and atlas was published, Matthew Flinders died, at the age of 40.
caption: Voyage to Terra Australis: Title Page
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