In January last year, archaeologists working on the HS2 project located the remains of Captain Matthew Flinders, the Royal Navy explorer who led the first circumnavigation of Australia and is credited with giving the country its name. The discovery sparked international media coverage and the find was captured on camera and will be showcased on the BBC Two Documentary, HS2 The Biggest Dig, tonight (Tuesday 22nd September).
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Remains of Captain Matthew Flinders were discovered by experts excavating burial ground in London as part of the HS2 rail project.
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The remains of explorer Captain Matthew Flinders have been identified by archaeologists working on the HS2 project in a London burial ground.

Captain Flinders led the first circumnavigation of Australia and is credited with naming the country.

Some 61,000 skeletons will be removed from St James's Gardens, where the station for the HS2 rail route will be built near London Euston station.

A recently discovered coffin showed the captain was buried on 23 July 1814.

[Railscot note: St James' Gardens were located on the west side of Euston station, just over Cardington Street. The churchyard was encroached on by the enlargement of the west side of the station in 1887.]
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