Matthew Flinders
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Captain Matthew Flinders was a British Royal Navy officer, navigator and cartographer who led the first inshore circumnavigation of mainland Australia, then called New Holland. He is also credited as
Portrait by Antoine Toussaint de Chazal, c. 1806–1807
1799 Flinders Expedition plaque at Mount Beerburrum, one of the Glass House Mountains in Queensland, Australia
Flinders in 1801, a miniature portrait on ivory
Church of St Mary and the Holy Rood, Donington, Lincolnshire, where Flinders was baptised, and was reburied in 2024
Trim (cat)
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Trim was a ship's cat which accompanied Matthew Flinders on his voyages to circumnavigate and map the coastline of Australia from 1801 to 1803.
Matthew Flinders
…native England, the first statue of Flinders was erected on 16 March 2006 (his birthday) in his hometown of Donington. The statue also depicts the cat Trim who accompanied him on his voyages. In July 2014, on the 200-year anniversary of his death, a large bronze statue of Flinders by the sculptor Mark…
Statue of Trim with Matthew Flinders, in Donington, Lincolnshire, Flinders' birthplace
Trim's statue by John Cornwell behind Matthew Flinders's own in Sydney, Australia
Plaque dedicated to Trim at Mitchell Library, Sydney
Trim. Flinders' faithful boat cat. Port Lincoln, South Australia