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Explorer who circumnavigated Australia buried in UK 210 years after his death

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Matthew Flinders, the British naval captain who led the expedition to circumnavigate Australia mapping the continent, has been reburied in the small English village of his birth. His remains were discovered in London during construction work in 2019. Chief International Correspondent Ben Lewis travelled to Donington in Lincolnshire, where locals and descendants of Flinders, turned out to pay their respects.
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