On Sat, 29 Jan 2011 21:01:35 -0000, Roy Stockdill <roy.stockdill@btinternet.com> wrote: > What therefore is the justification for the "return" of the map to a > country where it has never actually resided? As Andrew Flinders was a > Somerset man, is it not entirely appropriate that his historic map > should reside within his home county? Simply because his map was the > first to use the word "Australia", this is not in any way justification > for sending it to a country where it has never actually "lived"! I suspect most people in the United Kingdom have never heard of Captain Flinders and his map of Australia, whereas many people in Australia are probably familiar with the name especially as, according to the following web page about this captain in the Royal Navy, over 100 geographicial features and places are associated with his name in Australia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Flinders I don't think that I had ever heard of him before today or, if I had, I didn't retain the information. Note his name was Matthew not Andrew and he was born in Lincolnshire rather than in Somerset. I don't know if he had any association with Somerset. Further information about Matthew Flinders is on a BBC web page: http://www.bbc.co.uk/lincolnshire/content/articles/2006/12/22/famous_yellowbelly_matthew_flinders_feature.shtml Looking at these sites, I can say that I have certainly found out something new today. -- Josephine Jeremiah www.ianandjo.dsl.pipex.com