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Captain Flinders led the first circumnavigation of Australia and is credited with naming the country. Some 61,000 skeletons will be removed from St James's Gardens, where the station for the HS2 rail route will be built near London Euston station.
A recently discovered coffin showed the captain was buried on 23 July 1814.
Captain Flinders, who was from Lincolnshire, made several significant journeys, notably as commander of HMS Investigator. In the ship he became the first known person to navigate around the entire coast of Australia, confirming it as a continent.
He is also credited with giving Australia its name - although he was not the first to use the term, his work popularised its use.
But the man credited with mapping this vast country and identifying it as a continent also has a lesser-known legacy. Matthew Flinders also found time to write a biography of Trim, his ship's cat.
Trim survived storms, a fall overboard and a shipwreck before, according to Captain Flinders, eventually being eaten by starving slaves in Mauritius. There is even a statue in Sydney to celebrate Trim, and the obvious affection shown to him by his intrepid, seafaring owner.
Captain Flinders will be reinterred with the buried population of St James's Gardens at a location to be announced.
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-46974247?intlink_from_url=https://www.bbc.com/news/topics/c1038wnxyy0t/archaeology&link_location=live-reporting-story
mr_lebowski
(33,643 posts)What could possibly go wrong ...
maxsolomon
(33,382 posts)nothing, Shaggy.
mr_lebowski
(33,643 posts)maxsolomon
(33,382 posts)My brain is stuck on Scooby Doo.
Probably Penelope...
Throckmorton
(3,579 posts)Plus it was Colonel Mustard in the Library with a wrench.
sdfernando
(4,937 posts)LakeSuperiorView
(1,533 posts)Retrograde
(10,150 posts)The Palace of the Legion of Honor, one of the city's art museums, is built on a 19th century cemetery. When all the cemeteries were moved out to Colma c. 1900 one contractor took the money and moved all the headstones. There are still people buried underneath the museum and the adjacent golf course.
mr_lebowski
(33,643 posts)Now you done ruined it for me ...
Just kidding!
The golf course there, and the nearby houses out on (and just off of) Lake Avenue ... El Camino Del Mar, Sea Cliff Avenue ... such a freaking beautiful area.
One of my favorite 'driving tours' in SF is to drive out Lake Ave to Legion of Honor, then down to the Sutro Baths ruins and the trails in that area ... it don't get much better ...