Thread: Bring Flinders back to his spiritual country?

Originally Posted by 350RRC

Barker may also have had something to do with a lesser peak a bit to the south.

As far as where Matthew's remains should go....... shouldn't it be a case of flinders keepers?

DL

No

Originally Posted by 350RRC

Barker may also have had something to do with a lesser peak a bit to the south.

As far as where Matthew's remains should go....... shouldn't it be a case of flinders keepers?

DL

I really think you should stop now.

Mount Lofty was named by

Matthew Flinders

on 23 March 1802 during his circumnavigation of the

Australian continent

.

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It was first climbed by a European when the explorer

Collet Barker

climbed it in April 1831, almost six years before Adelaide was settled.

Hi,
I was surprised to find he had climbed Mt Brown in the Flinders Ranges. (named after one of his officers)
What was he doing up there?
It was not till I got to the top that it became apparent. Spencers Gulf finishes just to the west and he climbed it for the view of the waterway.
From Port Augusta, Mt Brown is quite a prominent peak, but it looks an arduous undertaking.
Cheers

Didn't you fellows do history at school?

Naming the Flinders Ranges

No this wasn’t offered in the curriculum in my history classes

Originally Posted by bob10

Didn't you fellows do history at school?

Naming the Flinders Ranges

Yes, in the 1970's & learnt a lot about English history, not much about Australias.

I went to school bbefore Matty did his lap.

History at school?
Yep, post 1840 Japan and China and the US Civil War.
My history teacher said my essay on the causes of that war was better than anything she'd seen submitted at uni.
She was a great teacher.

But Oz History?
Naa, didn't exist.

I did have a brilliant teacher in 3rd grade who taught us local colonial history, including as much as was known of the local tribes.
He was past retirement age and was forced out the year after he taught us, but he was one of those rare individuals where you didn't realise you were learning, every day was fun and interesting but we all learnt so much.
Amazing man.