[PDF] Australia Circumnavigated The Voyage Of Matthew Flinders In Hms Investigator 1801 1803 Volume I eBook

Author : Kenneth Morgan
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 745 pages
File Size : 46,58 MB
Release : 2020-02-06
Category : History
ISBN : 1351814400

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This two-volume work provides the first edited publication of Matthew Flinders’s fair journals from the circumnavigation of Australia in 1801-1803 in HMS Investigator, and of the ’Memoir’ he wrote to accompany his journals and charts. These are among the most important primary texts in Australian maritime history and European voyaging in the Pacific. Flinders was the first explorer to circumnavigate Australia. He was also largely responsible for giving Australia its name. His voyage was supported by the Admiralty, the Navy Board, the East India Company and the patronage of Sir Joseph Banks, President of the Royal Society. Banks ensured that the Investigator expedition included scientific gentlemen to document Australia’s flora, fauna, geology and landscape features. The botanist Robert Brown, botanical painter Ferdinand Bauer, landscape artist William Westall and the gardener Peter Good were all members of the voyage. After landfall at Cape Leeuwin, Flinders sailed anti-clockwise round the whole continent, returning to Port Jackson when the ship became unseaworthy. After a series of misfortunes, including a shipwreck and a long detention at the Ile de France (now Mauritius), Flinders returned to England in 1810. He devoted the last four years of his life to preparing A Voyage to Terra Australis, published in two volumes, and an atlas. Flinders died on 19 July 1814 at the age of forty. The fair journals edited here comprise a daily log with full nautical information and ’remarks’ on the coastal landscape, the achievements of previous navigators in Australian waters, encounters with Aborigines and Macassan trepangers, naval routines, scientific findings, and Flinders’s surveying and charting. The journals also include instructions for the voyage and some additional correspondence. The ’Memoir’ explains Flinders’ methodology in compiling his journals and charts and the purpose and content of his surveys.

Author : Kenneth Morgan, Dr
Publisher : Hakluyt Society
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 47,76 MB
Release : 2022-02-28
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ISBN : 9781032294285

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This two-volume work provides the first edited publication of Matthew Flinders's fair journals from the first circumnavigation of Australia in 1801-1803 in HMS Investigator, and of the 'Memoir' he wrote to accompany his journals and charts. These are among the most important primary texts in Australian maritime history and European voyaging in the Pacific. This edition has a substantial introduction and textual introduction complemented with photographic excerpts from Flinders's survey sheets, maps of the voyage, and illustrations of the botanical and artistic work undertaken.

Author : Matthew Flinders
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 25,81 MB
Release : 2017-10-24
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ISBN : 9781979090391

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This edition of A Voyage to Terra Australis contains all of the original illustrations and charts, which are vital for understanding the details of Matthew Flinders circumnavigation of Australia. The book covers a period of thirteen years (1801-1814); the initial three years comprise the journey of Flinders' ship the HMS Investigator as it sailed the coastlines of what was then known as Terra Australis. The second volume details the conclusions of these voyages, and Captain Flinders capture at the hands of the French. At war with England, and unconvinced Flinders' mission was purely scientific, the French governor Charles Mathieu Isidore Decaen imprisoned him for a total of six years; a Royal Navy blockade forced the author's parole. The scientific importance of mapping the entirety of Australia - upon which the British had established colonies - was undoubted: much of Australia, particularly the northern and western coasts, were hitherto poorly understood by mariners. The job was difficult: throughout, Flinders' ship would sustain wear and damage, impairing its ability to avoid calamities such as a collision with land or destruction in a storm. A Voyage to Terra Australis primarily concerns the various episodes that the HMS Investigator and its crew encountered in its voyage. The first volume however commences by summarizing what was already known thanks to the previous explorations of Australia by various ships; the early Dutch mercantile ventures to the outer portions of the continent, and the famous voyage of James Cook, are recounted. After these summaries are completed, Matthew Flinders commences to detail his own expedition. The painstaking process of mapping the coastlines between and around portions already discovered is described with measurements and charts. The obstacles of weather, and the sheer distance of the traversal, were surmounted by the persistence of Flinders and his fellow cartographers. Although this book is chiefly concerned with the mapping of the vast unknown lands, Flinders also includes several interesting events. An island with a healthy population of kangaroos - a creature unique to the Australian continent - is detailed with an accompanying drawing. Chance meetings with other vessels are mentioned, as are the various purchases of vital supplies to continue the long mission. Initially, Flinders was asked to simply keep records of his journey and observations. However his incarceration gave him ample time to draft this longer, more literary account of his travels. Unexpected results include his observation of the dodge tides of South Australia; although not a physicist, Flinders correctly speculated their cause. One of the most successful navigators of his time, the author demonstrated an early aptitude for seamanship. It was noted by his superiors that he possessed gifts both for command and the drawing of maps; after he had sufficiently rose through the Royal Navy's ranks that he was given command of the HMS Investigator. Tragically the years he spent captured took a toll on his health; he died in 1814 aged forty, a mere four years after arriving home in England.

Author : K. A. Austin
Publisher :
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 47,17 MB
Release : 1964
Category : Australia
ISBN :

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Brief mention of contacts - King Georges Sound, Coffins Bay (S.A.), Mornington (Vic.), Great Sandy Is., Shoalwater Bay (Qld.); fireplaces, heaps of shell, fish bones, bark containers observed at Port Phillip (by Robert Brown); p.164-170; Macassan remains - Sweers, Bentincks Island, Pellew Group; rock paintings, Chasm Island; Hostilities, Blue Mud Bay; Contact with Macassan proas, Malay Road, N.W. Arnhem Land.

Author : Juliet Wege
Publisher :
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 44,88 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Australia
ISBN : 9781920843205

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A fascinating account of Matthew Flinders' remarkable expedition to Australia in HMS Investigator in 1801-1805; the lives of the principal members of the expedition; their work in charting the coast and discovering and illustrating Australia's unique plants and animals; and of how their journals and collections were received in England. Much of the information presented in this account of Flinders and his expedition is little known, which makes this book a significant addition to the literature on one of the most important figures and expeditions in Australian history.