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1 Dollar - Elizabeth II Matthew Flinders Circumnavigates Australia
| Issuer | Cook Islands |
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| Year | 2016 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | A three-quarter length portrait of the British navigator Matthew Flinders standing on the deck of his sailing vessel, depicted in period naval attire, with his celebrated cat Trim seated beside him. Nautical rigging and ship's timbers frame the composition in the background field. The legend MATTHEW FLINDERS CIRCUMNAVIGATES AUSTRALIA is inscribed around the upper and lower periphery of the design. |
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Matthew Flinders completed his circumnavigation of Australia aboard HMS Investigator between 1801 and 1803, the first confirmed circuit of the continent — and the voyage on which he argued, successfully over time, for adopting the name "Australia" over "New Holland." He never saw that name officially adopted; he died in 1814, the day after his account of the voyage was finally published.