Matthew Flinders
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===Circumnavigation of Australia=== |
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Flinders spent 12 weeks and 2 days in Sydney resupplying and enlisting further crew for the continuation of the expedition to the northern coast of Australia. [[Bungaree]], an Aboriginal man who had accompanied him on his earlier coastal survey in 1799, joined the expedition as did another local Aboriginal man named [[Nanbaree]]. |
Flinders spent 12 weeks and 2 days in Sydney resupplying and enlisting further crew for the continuation of the expedition to the northern coast of Australia. [[Bungaree]], an Aboriginal man who had accompanied him on his earlier coastal survey in 1799, joined the expedition as did another local Aboriginal man named [[Nanbaree]].{{sfn|McCarthy|2025}} It was arranged that Captain [[John Murray (Australian explorer)|John Murray]] and his vessel ''Lady Nelson'' would accompany ''Investigator'' as a supply ship on this voyage. |
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Flinders set sail again on 22 July 1802, heading north and surveying the coast of what would later be called [[Queensland]]. They soon anchored at [[Sandy Cape]] where they, with Bungaree acting as a mediator, feasted on porpoise blubber with a group of [[Batjala]] people. In early August, Flinders sailed into a bay he named [[Port Curtis (bay)|Port Curtis]]. Here the local people threw stones at them as they attempted to land. Flinders ordered muskets be fired above their heads to disperse them. The expedition continued north but navigation became increasingly difficult as they entered the [[Great Barrier Reef]]. For Flinders, the collection of reefs served as a barrier to safe navigation, calling them ''Barrier Reefs'' in his 1814 book. ''Lady Nelson'' was deemed too unseaworthy to continue, and Captain Murray sailed her back to Sydney with his crew and Nanbaree, who wanted to return home. Flinders exited the reefs near to the [[Whitsunday Islands]] and sailed ''Investigator'' north to the [[Torres Strait]]. On 29 October, they arrived at [[Murray Island, Queensland|Murray Island]] in the east of this strait, where they traded iron for shell necklaces with the [[Torres Strait Islanders|local people]].{{cite Q |Q133863530 |mode=cs1 |last=Flinders |first=Matthew |author-link=Matthew Flinders }} |
Flinders set sail again on 22 July 1802, heading north and surveying the coast of what would later be called [[Queensland]]. They soon anchored at [[Sandy Cape]] where they, with Bungaree acting as a mediator, feasted on porpoise blubber with a group of [[Batjala]] people. In early August, Flinders sailed into a bay he named [[Port Curtis (bay)|Port Curtis]]. Here the local people threw stones at them as they attempted to land. Flinders ordered muskets be fired above their heads to disperse them. The expedition continued north but navigation became increasingly difficult as they entered the [[Great Barrier Reef]]. For Flinders, the collection of reefs served as a barrier to safe navigation, calling them ''Barrier Reefs'' in his 1814 book. ''Lady Nelson'' was deemed too unseaworthy to continue, and Captain Murray sailed her back to Sydney with his crew and Nanbaree, who wanted to return home. Flinders exited the reefs near to the [[Whitsunday Islands]] and sailed ''Investigator'' north to the [[Torres Strait]]. On 29 October, they arrived at [[Murray Island, Queensland|Murray Island]] in the east of this strait, where they traded iron for shell necklaces with the [[Torres Strait Islanders|local people]].{{cite Q |Q133863530 |mode=cs1 |last=Flinders |first=Matthew |author-link=Matthew Flinders }} |
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*{{cite Q |Q133875246 |mode=cs1 |last=Flinders |first=Matthew |author-link=Matthew Flinders |orig-year=1814 }}{{sfn whitelist|CITEREFFlinders1966}} |
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*{{cite Australian Dictionary of Biography |last=McCarthy |first=F. D. |date=2025-07-11 |orig-year=1966 |title=Bungaree (c. 1775–1830) |volume=1 |id2=bungaree-1848 |access-date=2026-04-22 }} |
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