The Cambridge History of the British Empire: pt. 1. Australia; advisor Ernest ScottArthur Percival Newton, Ernest Alfred Benians Cambridge University Press, 1933 - Commonwealth of Nations |
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... Flinders permission to fit out the Investigator as he thought necessary ; and she sailed in July 1801. On December 6 , Flinders sighted the Australian coast near Cape Leeuwin . That part of the coast between the south - west corner of ...
... Flinders permission to fit out the Investigator as he thought necessary ; and she sailed in July 1801. On December 6 , Flinders sighted the Australian coast near Cape Leeuwin . That part of the coast between the south - west corner of ...
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... Flinders steered a course round the north - west and south of Australia , and reached Sydney in June 1803 . The continent had thus been for the first time circumnavigated . 1 Flinders then resolved to return to England to lay his charts ...
... Flinders steered a course round the north - west and south of Australia , and reached Sydney in June 1803 . The continent had thus been for the first time circumnavigated . 1 Flinders then resolved to return to England to lay his charts ...
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... Flinders for six and a half years ; the period was lengthened through circumstances connected with the war . In 1806 Napoleon himself , persuaded by Bougainville , sent an order to Decaen directing him to restore to Captain Flinders his ...
... Flinders for six and a half years ; the period was lengthened through circumstances connected with the war . In 1806 Napoleon himself , persuaded by Bougainville , sent an order to Decaen directing him to restore to Captain Flinders his ...
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