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This episode we see Bass undertake his speculative business ventures, no longer in the company of Flinders, but his timing meant his returns were not as lucrative as he’d hoped. Flinders set off on the mammoth task of circumnavigating the New Holland-New South Wales. This first leg of his mission...
George Bass and Matthew Flinders undertake an important mapping journey to confirm the existence of what will soon afterwards become known as Bass Strait, a body of water between the mainland of ‘New South Wales’ and the newly recognized island of Van Diemens Land. But afterwards their future aspirations diverge,...
Naval men who arrived in NSW in September 1795, Bass & Flinders were both intent of undertaking exploration and charting sections of New Holland, still largely unknown to the British. They became well known as navigators, explorers and map makers, charting the Australian coasts, and will likely be names known...