One legendary cat, several farm animals and 80 seafarers faced death after being abandoned in the open ocean – until an extraordinary man hatched an audacious rescue plan. Having completed the ...

MATTHEW Flinders was an explorer in the 18th and 19th centuries who was the first person to circumnavigate Australia. His remains have been discovered after it was forgotten where he had been buried.

Having completed the circumnavigation of the great land mass he named ‘Australia’ and having proved at last that it was an island continent, Matthew Flinders and his men said goodbye to Sydney just ...

Matthew Flinders is known as the man who put Australia on the map – literally. In this edited extract from a new biography of the famed sailor, explorer and cat-lover, GRANTLEE KIEZA tells how ...