LONDON (Reuters) - Archaeologists have found the remains of Captain Matthew Flinders, a British Royal Navy explorer who was the first to sail around Australia and is credited with naming it, while ...
LONDON — Archaeologists working on a new U.K. railway discovered the grave of Capt. Matthew Flinders, born in Lincolnshire England in 1774. Flinders was the first person to sail around Australia, and ...
Capt. Matthew Flinders led the first circumnavigation of the continent whose name he would go on to popularize: Australia. Britain is carrying out its largest-ever archaeological dig, courtesy of ...
ABC Online Shipwrecks Audio Transcript » Cape Catastrophe Back to story. Tony Brown: Cape Catastrophe, Memory Cove and the names of eight offshore islands all refer to the first ...
Britain is carrying out its largest-ever archaeological dig, courtesy of construction on a multibillion-dollar, high-speed rail system to speed passengers between Britain's biggest cities. But last ...