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Bray Boland

Coffin plate of the man who named Australia heads to SA

The man credited with naming Australia, Matthew Flinders, is making one last journey to his final resting place in England as a coffin plate that identified his lost grave in London is sent down under for display. 

The remains of the leader of the first inshore circumnavigation of Australia more than 220 years ago have returned to his hometown of Donington in Lincolnshire to be reinterred in the church where he was baptised and married.

Flinders died in London in 1814 but his grave site was lost when his headstone was removed.

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