The fiRrst Indigenous pErson to circumnAvigate Australia (with Lieutenant Matthew Flinders) in 1798
Portrait of Bungaree, a Native of New South Wales,with Fort Macquarie, Sydney Harbour in Background c.1826Painted around 1826 by Augustus Earle.
Flinders was the cartographer of the first whole map of Australiaand the first person to circumnavigate the continent and recommend the name ‘Australia’.NATIONAL LIBRARY OF AUSTRALIA