Matthew Flinders 1774-1814

Matthew Flinders was an English navigator and cartographer who was leader of the first circumnavigation of Australia and identified it as a Continent. Flinders made three voyages to the Southern Ocean between 1791 and 1810.
 In the second voyage George Bass and Flinders confirmed that Van Diemen's land, now Tasmania, was an island.
 In the third voyage Flinders circumnavigated the mainland of what was to be called Australia, accompanied by Aboriginal Bungaree.
This photo is my second in the series of statues in Rumbalara Reserve. Unfortunately there are only two left these days out of a total of four!!