THE ATHENAEUMA Voyage to Terra AustralisMatthew Flinders
Journey
A Voyage to Terra Australis
Read it in the Library After Dark Or read it as plain textMatthew Flinders’s account of his voyage in the Investigator, which in 1802 and 1803 sailed all the way round Australia and showed it to be one continent. He argued for calling it Australia, and the name stuck. He finished the book after six and a half years held by the French on Mauritius, and it was published in London the day before he died, in July 1814.
The librarian
- Reading time
- About 11 hr 10 min
- Where to find it
- The Antipodes, through the Earth from the Grand Hall
- Edition
- Project Gutenberg, eBook #12929. In the public domain in the United States.