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The Navigators
| The Navigators, a two-part series made by the ABC TV's Natural History Unit, celebrates the 200th anniversary of the great voyages of discovery by Matthew Flinders (1774-1814) and Nicolas Baudin (1754-1803), leaders of two separate expeditions, one English, the other French, which were sent out by their governments to chart the unknown southern coast of Australia.
Broadcast on ABC TV in Adelaide in October 2002. |
 So far there are no e-text versions of either Matthew Flinders' or Nicolas Baudin's accounts of their voyages. You can read fragments of A Voyage to Terra Australis on the State Library of NSW website.
You may also be interested in Steve's Featured works: Australian explorers collection of e-texts. |
 Flinders' Voyage to Terra Australis
Journal of Post Captain Nicolas Baudin [English] Baudin's Mon voyage aux terres australes [French] |
 Books about Matthew Flinders
Books about Nicolas Baudin |
The ABC Navigators website - a 'must try' is the excellent
Interactive Investigator link The University of Adelaide's Flinders-Baudin Project has been established to commemorate the meeting of the two explorers Flinders-Baudin Project media release The Mitchell Library's Matthew Flinders Collection is well worth visiting |
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