Flinders' Journal
Matthew Flinders published a record of his exploration of Australia in A voyage to Terra Australis (London, G & W Nicol, 1814) in two volumes with an accompanying atlas. The links on the dates below will take you to a journal extract for that day. We have only included extracts from the Queensland portion of the circumnavigation.
26 July, 1802	Mount Warning; Cape Moreton
27 July	Double-Island Point; Wide Bay
28 July	Indian Head; Sandy Cape; Break-sea Spit (Westall drawing)
29 July	Off Break-sea Spit
30 July	Sandy Cape
31 July	Sandy Cape (Brown plant list)
1 August	Hervey's Bay
2 August	Hervey's Bay
3 August	Bustard Bay
4 August	Bustard Bay; Gatcombe Head
5 August	Gatcombe Head; Hill View (Brown plant list)
6 August	South-trees Point
7 August	South-trees Point (map)
8 August	Point Curtis; Facing Island
9 August	Cape Capricorn; Cape Keppel; Sea Hill; Keppel Bay (Bauer painting)
10 August	Keppel Bay; West-arm Hill (Bauer painting)
11 August	Keppel Bay; Hummocky Island
12 August	Keppel Bay (map)
13 August	Keppel Bay; Port Curtis; Hummocky Island
14 August	Keppel Bay; South Hill
15 August	Keppel Bay; South Hill (Westall drawing)
16 August	Keppel Bay; Cape Keppel (Westall drawing)
17 August	Keppel Bay (Westall drawing)
18 August	Keppel Bay; Keppel Isles
19 August	Cape Manifold (Westall drawing)
20 August	Cape Manifold; Harvey's Isles
21 August	Island Head; Port Bowen; Cape Clinton; Entrance Island (Westall drawing)
22 August	West-water Head; Island Head; East-water Hill (Bauer painting)
23 August	Entrance Island; Port Bowen (Westall drawing)
24 August	Port Bowen (Westall drawing)
25 August	Harvey's Isles; between Island Head and Cape Townshend
26 August	Broad Sound
27 August	Strong-tide Passage (map)
28 August	Strong-tide Passage; Townshend Island; Leicester Island (Bauer painting)
29 August	Shoal-water Bay
30 August	Shoal-water Bay
31 August	Islet in Shoal-water Bay
1 September	Double Mount
2 September	Pine Mount
3 September	Aiken's Island
4 September	Thirsty Sound; Pier Head
5 September	Thirsty Sound; Pier Head
6 September	Thirsty Sound
7 September	Northumberland Islands
8 September	Pier Head; Long Island; Broad Sound; North-point Isles (map)
9 September	West Hill; Thirsty Sound; Broad Sound; Flat Isles
10 September	Flat Isles
11 September	Broad Sound
12 September	Upper Head; Broad Sound
13 September	Broad Sound; Upper Head
14 September	Broad Sound
15 September	Broad Sound
16 September	Broad Sound
17 September	Upper Head; Thirsty Sound
18 September	Thirsty Sound; Long Island (Bauer painting)
19 September	Thirsty Sound; Long Island
20 September	Thirsty Sound; Long Island
21 September	Thirsty Sound; Long Island
22 September	Long Island
23 September	Long Island; Broad Sound
24 September	Return to Upper Head
25 September	Return to Upper Head
26 September	Upper Head
27 September	Broad Sound; North-point Isles; Northumberland Islands
28 September	Upper Head; Northumberland Islands; Percy Isles
29 September	Percy Isles (map)
30 September	Percy Isles
1 October	Percy Isles (no journal entry)
2 October	Percy Isles (Bauer painting)
3 October	Percy Isles
4 October	The northern Percy Isles
5 October	Great Barrier Reef
6 October	Great Barrier Reef
7 October	Great Barrier Reef
8 October	Great Barrier Reef
9 October	Great Barrier Reef
10 October	Great Barrier Reef
11 October	Great Barrier Reef
12 October	Great Barrier Reef
13 October	Great Barrier Reef
14 October	Great Barrier Reef
15 October	Cumberland Isle
16 October	Cumberland Isle (Bauer painting)
17 October	Great Barrier Reef
18 October	Great Barrier Reef
19 October	Great Barrier Reef
20 October	Sighted Holborne Isle
21 October	Beyond the Great Barrier Reef; Heading to Torres' Strait
22 October	Heading to Torres' Strait
23 October	Heading to Torres' Strait
24 October	Heading to Torres' Strait
25 October	Heading to Torres' Strait
26 October	Heading to Torres' Strait (no journal entry)
27 October	Heading to Torres' Strait
28 October	Heading for Murray's Islands; The Eastern Fields; Pandora's Entrance; Portlock's Reef
29 October	Off Murray's Islands; Darnley's Island (Westall watercolour and drawing)
30 October	Murray's Islands; Sighted Cornwallis' Range; Half-way Island (Westall drawing) (Brown plant list)
31 October	Passed York Isles; Anchored in Prince of Wales' Islands; Wednesday Island; Hammond's Island
1 November	Hammond's Island; Wednesday Island
2 November	Good's Island; Sighted Booby Island (Bauer painting)
3 November	Wallis' Isles
4 November	Gulf of Carpentaria (east side)
5 November	Gulf of Carpentaria; Near Batavia River
6 November	Gulf of Carpentaria
7 November	Gulf of Carpentaria; Coen River entrance
8 November	Gulf of Carpentaria; Duyfhen Point
9 November	Gulf of Carpentaria; Pera Head
10 November	Gulf of Carpentaria; Cape Keer-Weer
11 November	Gulf of Carpentaria
12 November	Gulf of Carpentaria
13 November	Gulf of Carpentaria; Nassau River
14 November	Gulf of Carpentaria; Van Diemen's River; Caron River
15 November	Gulf of Carpentaria
16 November	Gulf of Carpentaria
17 November	Sweers Island
18 November	Sweers Island (Bauer painting)
19 November	Bentinck Island (map)
20 November	Allen's Isle; Horseshoe Island
21 November	Investigator's Road
22 November	Sweers and Bentinck Islands (Bauer painting)
23 November	Sweers Island
24 November	Sweers Island
25 November	Sweers Island
26 November	Sweers Island
27 November	Sweers Island
28 November	Sweers Island
29 November	Sweers Island
30 November	Wellesley Islands
1 December	Gulf of Carpentaria; Cape Van Diemen
2 December	Gulf of Carpentaria
3 December	Bountiful Island
4 December	Bountiful Island
5 December	Cape Van Diemen
6 December	Isle Pisonia
7 December	Mornington Island
8 December	Gulf of Carpentaria
9 December	Gulf of Carpentaria
10 December	Gulf of Capentaria
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