Captain Matthew Flinders will be reburied in the English village where he was born in 1814, with Australian guests among those marking the event.
The remains of renowned explorer Captain Matthew Flinders - credited with mapping and naming Australia - will be reburied in the English village of his birth this weekend.
A lesser-known part of the landmark voyage was the role played by an Indigenous man who acted as guide and interpreter. Some critics also point to explorers such as Flinders being a precursor to the violent suppression of Indigenous peoples inflicted by British colonists.Matthew Flinders' breastplate after it was pulled from the ground and after it was cleaned .
Plans for Flinders' reburial became stalled due to pandemic restrictions in Britain, but a group of campaigners from Donington pushed for him to be reburied there. But in Britain, the country of his birth, Flinders is less known than other explorers such as Captain James Cook.
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