A Voyage to Terra Australis

A Voyage to Terra Australis
Map showing Matthew Flinders' voyages aboard HMS Investigator
AuthorMatthew Flinders
LanguageEnglish
PublisherG. and W. Nicol
Publication date
1814
Publication placeEngland
Media typePrint
Pages2 volumes

A Voyage to Terra Australis: Undertaken for the Purpose of Completing the Discovery of that Vast Country, and Prosecuted in the Years 1801, 1802, and 1803, in His Majesty's Ship the Investigator was a sea voyage journal written by British mariner and explorer Matthew Flinders. It describes his circumnavigation of the Australian continent in the early years of the 19th century, and his imprisonment by the French on the island of Mauritius from 1804 to 1810.[1]

  1. ^ Hello, H.M. (1966). "Flinders, Matthew (1774–1814)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Canberra: National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. ISBN 978-0-522-84459-7. ISSN 1833-7538. OCLC 70677943. Retrieved 1 October 2008.