Monday, January 28, 2019

King in parking lot; explorer under a train station



In case you've forgotten about it, a couple of years ago the remains of infamous King Richard III of England were found under a parking lot in England.  It seems like England has famous people under all sorts of things, as just recently they found the remains of English explorer Matthew Flinders, who mapped out Australia, under a train station.

The explorer who literally put Australia on the map is found buried beneath a London train station


Here's a couple of explanatory elements from the article:
On Thursday, more than 200 years since his death, archaeologists announced they believe they’ve finally found Flinders’s remains beneath a site behind Euston Station in London — almost exactly where historians, Australians and Brits believed the explorer had likely been reburied.
Archaeologists were able to identify Flinders’s remains because of a lead breastplate found on top of his casket, the inscription still legible, according to a release from HS2 on the U.K.’s transportation department website.
Flinders, a cartographer by trade, completed his two-year epic journey around the coast of Australia on the HMS Investigator in 1803.

Here's his statue.  It's outside the train station that he was buried under.

It includes a statue of his cat.





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