Matthew Flinders

Quick Facts

Full Name	Matthew Flinders
Occupation	Explorer
Date Of Birth	Mar 16, 1774(1774-03-16)
Age	250
Date Of Death	Jun 19, 1814
Birthplace	Conington
Country	United Kingdom
Birth City	England
Horoscope	Pisces

Matthew Flinders Biography

Matthew Flinders is one of the most popular and richest Explorer who was born on March 16, 1774 in Conington, England, United Kingdom. He was the first European to sail around Australia, proving that it was a continent.

He travelled to Tahiti with Captain Early in his career, he voyaged to Tahiti under the leadership of Captain William Bligh. early in his career.

Flinders’s book Delegated Governance and the British State: Walking without Order won the 2009 W. J. M. Mackenzie Prize, awarded by the Political Studies Association for the best book published in 2008.

Flinders did his undergraduate degree at Loughborough University before completing his PhD in public policy and governance at the University of Sheffield. He teaches on the undergraduate politics degree at the University of Sheffield and has written a number of academic books. His main area of expertise is British governance. He obtained a departmental chair in 2009, and is deputy head of the department.

He married Ann Chappelle in 1801. His father, also called Matthew, was a surgeon.

Matthew Flinders Net Worth

Matthew Flinders is one of the richest Explorer from United Kingdom. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Matthew Flinders 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Robinson Crusoe, Daniel Defoe’s classic novel, convinced him to devote his life to sea-exploration.

After his death, A Voyage To Terra Australis became a bestseller.

Matthew V. Flinders (born 1972) is a British academic and political scientist. From July 2014 until April 2017 he was Chair of the Executive Committee of Trustees of the Political Studies Association.

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Who is Matthew Flinders Dating?

According to our records, Matthew Flinders married to Ann Chappelle (m. 1801–1814). As of December 1, 2023, Matthew Flinders’s is not dating anyone.

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Facts & Trivia

Matthew Ranked on the list of most popular Explorer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United Kingdom. Matthew Flinders celebrates birthday on March 16 of every year.

What is Matthew Flinders most famous for?

Matthew Flinders, (born March 16, 1774, Donington, Lincolnshire, England—died July 19, 1814, London), English navigator who charted much of the Australian coast. Flinders entered the Royal Navy in 1789 and became a navigator.

What did Matthew Flinders discover?

Matthew Flinders (1774-1814) proved that Tasmania was an island and produced its first map. He traced the coasts of the Australian continent, proving that the east, New South Wales, was the same land mass as the west, New Holland. He produced the first complete map of Australia.

What did Matthew Flinders do?

British explorer Matthew Flinders was the first person to circumnavigate Australia. Flinders charted much previously unknown coastline and the maps he produced were the first to accurately depict Australia as we now know it. Flinders proved Australia was a single continent.

Why did Matthew Flinders named Australia Australia?

So Flinders had concluded that the Terra Australis, as hypothesised by Aristotle and Ptolemy (which would be discovered as Antarctica less than six years later) did not exist ; therefore he wanted the name applied to the continent of Australia, and it stuck.

Who named Australia?

It was the English explorer Matthew Flinders who made the suggestion of the name we use today. He was the first to circumnavigate the continent in 1803, and used the name ‘Australia’ to describe the continent on a hand drawn map in 1804. The National Library holds a reproduction.