Flinders Place Names

The place names given by Matthew Flinders along the Australian coast (1795–1803)

Version under development

Audio introduction

Scroll down

Introduction

A navigator and his nomenclature

The apprenticeship years (1795–1799)

Reliance, Tom Thumb, Francis and Norfolk

Tom Thumb, a boat eight feet long

The strait and the island

Port Jackson

The voyage of the Investigator (1801–1803)

General Chart of Terra Australis or Australia, 1814

Completing the discovery of a continent

Encounter Bay

Sir Edward Pellew Group

Shipwreck, captivity and publication

Wreck Reef

Six years on the Isle de France

Terra Australis, or Australia

Malay Road

Why Flinders’s place names matter