Matthew Flinders Route Taken on the Mapping of Most of Australia’s Coastline
December 1801 he reached “Cape Leewin”. Sailing east, he was amazed by the massive cliffs of the Great Australian Bight.
JANUARY 1802
In running along that part of the South Coast which lies to the west of King George’s Sound, I had endeavoured to keep so close in with the land that the breaking water on [...]