Thread: Bring Flinders back to his spiritual country?

Hi,
Flinders Island?
Cheers

Put him in Flinders Column, Mt Lofty?



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I am sure he would much prefer NQ

I think we should bring him back to where history demands he be interred with respect. Obviously he means nothing to England.

I agree Bring Flinders Back BFB BFB ad infinitum

If he did I'm sure they wouldn't have run a Bulldozer over him.

Yep bee, he could be stood upright & to think that man stood there having a Coffee & a Sticky Bun while admiring the view to Adelaide Airport.

I am sure he would much prefer NQ

Naaaah there's no Coffee Shop there.

Originally Posted by Ancient Mariner

I am sure he would much prefer NQ

Wouldn't we all!
Eagerly awaiting our resident Flinders expert, Pedro the Swift's input.

I have in front of me ,MATTHEW FLINDERS, the life of, by Ernest Scott. In my bookcase I have the Great Race between Matthew Flinders and Nicolas Baudin for the North South passage through Australia, by Klaus Toft, and Matthew Flinders great adventures in the circumnavigation of Australia, edited and introduced by Tim Flannery. Australia's greatest navigator, Flinders was born in England in 1774, joined the RN in 1789 died in 1814 without seeing his book in print.

He is the man who gave Australia its name. The first circumnavigator of the continent, monuments commemorating his exploits can be found in Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide. Even his cat, Trim, the first feline navigator of Australia, has been graced with a statue, perched on a window sill outside the Mitchell Library in Sydney. Flinders named over 200 points on the Australian coast, from his voyages with Bass in the Tom Thumb, the Francis, The Norfolk, with the greatest number whilst on the Investigator. It is fair to say there would not be many places around our coast that did not have some point named by Flinders in the vicinity. Whilst serving on Patrol Boats, it was always fascinating to sail past places named by Flinders, and humbling to think they did it all in leaky old sailboats. I think it would be fitting to have a place set aside at the Australian War Memorial for his remains [ he was RN] and a history of his work.

The chart mapping flinders did in the gulf of Carpenteria is still used today it's that accurate. Even with the use of GPS most of the rivers (and there are many ) on the eastern side of the gulf are still charted as flinders discovered them. The latest admiralty charts have filled in a few gaps but you could easily navigate safely using his original charts .

Anyone who has had to learn sextant navigation will fully understand how good he really was at his trade.

Personally I don't care where they put him if his remains came back , anywhere would be a fitting tribute to the man and his contribution to this country

Cheers Ean

You have to dip yer lid the the guy walking (no trail Bikes) from the coast through the then untouched Stringybark & misc. Eucalypti forest of the Plains, creeks & valleys to cross, aprox 25 miles inland through an unknown landscape to reach the Mount Lofty Summit which incidentally he had spotted from Kangaroo Island & thought, "I'll have some of that & give it a proper name & it will be just the place to build an Obelisk as well as a high end Dining Facility". The three TV towers could go just along the road a bit".

I don't know if he walked alone or with a trusty sidekick but deffo he wouldn't have had a Bullock Wagon train but possible warlike Aboriginals following him /them.

Thing is, he did what he set out to do & we remember him today & his
Mount Lofty is straight up the hill from my backdoor.


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