Who was the first man to circumnavigate Australia in his ship The Investigator between 1796 and 1803, the largest island in Bass Strait is named after him?
Investigator Strait Investigator Strait Investigator Strait is a body of water in South Australia lying between the Yorke Peninsula, on the Australian mainland, and Kangaroo Island. It was named by Matthew Flinders after his ship, HMS "Investigator", on his voyage of 1801–1802. It is bordered by the Gulf St Vincent in the northeast. It was named Investigator’s Strait by Flinders on Monday 29 March 1802. Investigator Strait is bounded by Yorke Peninsula to its north and by Kangaroo Island to its south. Flinders identified its boundaries with the following adjoining bodies of water - Gulf St Vincent and Backstairs Passage. The Strait’s
Seal Island (Investigator Strait) Seal Island (Investigator Strait) Seal Island is an island located in Investigator Strait off the south coast of Yorke Peninsula in the Australian state of South Australia about south south-west of Stenhouse Bay. Since 1972, it has been part of the Althorpe Islands Conservation Park. Seal Island is about south south-west of Stenhouse Bay. It is described as an ‘elevated hump’ rising to a height of with a series of ‘segmented islets’ at its west side. Seal Island is reported as being best accessed via its north coast and during the ‘calmest weather’. A number of sources consider Seal Island