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The school was to be named the Geelong National Grammar School but, at the foundation ceremony, Macarthur asked permission to name it the "Flinders National Grammar School", after Captain Matthew Flinders, the first European explorer to circumnavigate Australia, who had climbed the local You Yangs range and described the Geelong area. [2]
Trim's statue by John Cornwell behind Matthew Flinders's own in Sydney, Australia Plaque dedicated to Trim at Mitchell Library, Sydney Trim. Flinders' faithful boat cat. Port Lincoln, South Australia. Trim (1799–1804) was a ship's cat which accompanied Matthew Flinders on his voyages to circumnavigate and map the coastline of Australia from ...
Matthew Flinders was born in Donington, Lincolnshire, the son of Matthew Flinders, a surgeon, and his wife Susannah (née Ward).He was educated at Cowley's Charity School, Donington, from 1780 and then at the Reverend John Shinglar's Grammar School at Horbling in Lincolnshire.
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The book told in great detail of his explorations and included maps and drawings of the profiles of unknown coastline areas of what Flinders called "Terra Australis Incognita." By this, he was referring to the great unknown Southern continent that had been sighted and partly mapped by prominent earlier mariners such as Captain James Cook.
Timbertop is a full-time boarding, co-educational campus of Geelong Grammar School located near Mansfield, Victoria, Australia. It shares its name with Mount Timbertop, which towers directly over the school. [1] A view toward the summit of Mount Timbertop, as seen from the school grounds. A map of the Timbertop Campus, Merrijig, VIC
The Freycinet Map of 1811 is the first map of Australia to be published which shows the full outline of Australia. [1] It was drawn by Louis de Freycinet and was an outcome of the Baudin expedition to Australia. It preceded the publication of Matthew Flinders' map of Australia, Terra Australis or Australia, by three years.