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HMS Investigator Anchors
The HMS ''Investigator'' Anchors are the two anchors that Matthew Flinders jettisoned from on the morning of Saturday 21 May 1803 in order to avoid running aground on Middle Island in the Archipelago of the Recherche on the south coast of New Holland (now Western Australia). In 1973, the anchors were located and recovered by members of the Underwater Explorers Club of South Australia (UEC). The recovered anchors became the subject of an ownership dispute between various governments, particularly those of South Australia and Western Australia due to their historic significance as artefacts of a major voyage of European exploration. The dispute was resolved with the ownership of the anchors going to the Australian Government who subsequently gifted one of the anchors to the South Australian Government. The pair of artefacts is also known as ''Flinders' Anchors''.
==Background==
The outfitting of HMS ''Investigator'' in early 1801 prior to her departure from the United Kingdom for Terra Australis included five bower, two stream and two kedge anchors. An additional bower anchor was included in stores sent to Port Jackson.〔Geeson, N.T. and Sexton, R.T.; (1970), 'H.M. Sloop Investigator', pages 293-294, in ''Mariner's Mirror'', v.56, no. 3, Society for Nautical Research, London, pages 275-298.〕
HMS ''Investigator'' departed Kupang in Timor on 8 April 1803 to sail to Port Jackson where she arrived on 9 June 1803. The object of the voyage was to seek medical aid for the members of the crew who were suffering from dysentery and fever, and seek repairs to the sloop. Flinders' intention was "to stop a day or two" at the Archipelago of the Recherche for "the purposes of procuring geese for our sick people, seal oil for our lamps, and a few casks of salt from the lake on Middle Island." HMS ''Investigator'' arrived on the evening of Tuesday 17 May 1803 and anchored on the north side of Middle Island between the island's north east point and Goose Island in the area known as Goose Island Bay.
The visit to Middle Island also allowed the burial of the sloop's boatswain, Charles Douglas, who died on Wednesday 18 May 1803 to take place on dry land.
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