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[I was] induced to go to sea against the wishes of friends from reading Robinson Crusoe.

Matthew Flinders

A poor dried up land afflicted by fever and flies and fit only for a college of monks whose religious zeal might cope with the suffocating heat and mosquitoes.

Of Cotton's Island

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Had I permitted myself any innovation upon the original term, it would have been to convert it into Australia; as being more agreeable to the ear, and an assimilation to the names of the other great portions of the earth.

Matthew Flinders

Matthew Flinders

Matthew Flinders

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Born: March 16, 1774

Died: July 19, 1814 (aged 40)

Bio: Captain Matthew Flinders was an English navigator and cartographer, who was the leader of the first circumnavigation of Australia and identified it as a continent.

Known for:

A Voyage to Terra Australis (1814)
A Biographical Tribute to the Memory of Trim

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