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Click on this banner to go to the State Library of South Australia's page on Captain Matthew Flinders and Captain Nicholas Baudin, created for the bicentenary of their encounter.It contains extracts from the diaries of both captains, as well as links to news articles and old photographs of the tablet on The Bluff at Encounter Bay commemorating the meeting, placed there in 1902.

Article about the French maritime explorers, including Nicholas Baudin,who met Flinders at Encounter Bay, Victor Harbor. From "Australian Heritage" Magazine

Film Clip by Bill Peach describing Flinders and his achievement of creating the first complete map of Australia

Article about Matthew Flinders and how he called the island Australia From "Australian Heritage" Magazine

Sydney : Collins, 1977 30 p. : ill. ; 26 cm., reprinted by Angus & Robertson in 1997 and sold in The Library Sop of the State Library of NSW.
 * Trim / by Matthew Flinders ; illustrated by Annette Macarthur-Onslow

When Captain Matthew Flinders circumnavigated Australia in 1801-2, the ship's cat was called Trim. Trim was very useful at catching rats and mice, and was a pet to the sailors. On his way back to England, Flinders was imprisoned on the French island of Mauritius for seven years. During this time, he wrote a story about Trim the cat. This is a great primary source to use with children. A bronze statue of Trim stands on the windowsill of the Mitchell Library in Sydney. || ||

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