Investigator
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Matthew FlindersAs commander of the Investigator, he again sailed from England for Australia in 1801. On this visit he surveyed the entire southern coast, from Cape Leeuwin, in the southwest, to the Bass Strait, which separates mainland Australia from Tasmania. On July 22, 1802, he sailed from Sydney (on Port…
Read MoreAs commander of the Investigator, he again sailed from England for Australia in 1801. On this visit he surveyed the entire southern coast, from Cape Leeuwin, in the southwest, to the Bass Strait, which separates mainland Australia from Tasmania. On July 22, 1802, he sailed from Sydney (on Port…
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Robert Brown…naturalist aboard a ship, the Investigator, for a surveying voyage along the northern and southern coasts of Australia under the command of Matthew Flinders.
Read More…naturalist aboard a ship, the Investigator, for a surveying voyage along the northern and southern coasts of Australia under the command of Matthew Flinders.
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Sir Robert John Le Mesurier McClure…McClure took command of the Investigator, one of two ships sent to find the British explorer Sir John Franklin, missing in the North American Arctic since 1845; the doomed Franklin expedition was one of the worst disasters in the history of polar exploration. From the Pacific, McClure entered the Bering…
Read More…McClure took command of the Investigator, one of two ships sent to find the British explorer Sir John Franklin, missing in the North American Arctic since 1845; the doomed Franklin expedition was one of the worst disasters in the history of polar exploration. From the Pacific, McClure entered the Bering…
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