biography
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| lived:
| (1774–1814)
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| biography:
| Explorer, born in Donington, Lincolnshire, EC England, UK. He joined the navy in 1789, and became a navigator. In 1795 he sailed to Australia, where he explored the SE coast, and later (1801–3) circumnavigated the country. On his way home he was wrecked off the Great Barrier Reef, then kept prisoner by the French Governor of Mauritius until 1810. The Flinders R in Queensland, and the Flinders Range in South Australia are named after him. |
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