The English Heritage Blue Plaques Scheme erects plaques onLondon buildings only. These photographs show the position of one such plaque to Matthew Flinders at 56 Fitzroy Street, W1. If you're in London, Fitzroy St. is just off the Euston Rd. to the south -west of Euston Station

The plaque reads

CAPTAIN MATTHEW FLINDERS RN

(1774-1814),
EXPLORER AND NAVIGATOR lived here.

Note: This plaque was removed from53 Stanhope Street, Camden in 1965 and re-erected at the present address in 1973.

(Thank you to Peter Ashley author of ‘The Indomitable Captain Matthew Flinders, Royal Navy' for forwarding them to IDEA.)

The remaining photographs were kindly sent from Australia to IDEA attached to the following email:-

“Hello, my name is David Lewis and I am the foundation Principal of a large primary school about 100 kilometres south of Sydney.

I have just returned from a holiday where I visited some very isolated areas of South Australia and Western Australia. I was surprised and delighted to find several monuments to Matthew Flinders.
I wish I had had the sense to photo all of them, but it didn't occur to me at once, the significance of this. It wasn't until I returned to my emails and found the blue plaque pictures that I realised these photos may interest you

I have also given a link aboutFowlers Bay, which Flinders named after his first officer.

http://www.nullarbornet.com.au/towns/fowlersBay.html

Regards, David Lewis”

An isolated bay in Cape Le Grande National Park, far SE Western Australia approx 900km SE of Perth with a monument to Matthew Flinders

Monument at Flinders Bay near Cape Leeuwin which is the most South Westerly mainland point of the Australian contenent, in the state of West Australia. Flinders Bay lies to the North East of Cape Leeuwin, close to the mouth of the Blackwood river South of Augusta, WA.