High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The HMS Investigator Anchors are the two anchors that were ditched from HM Sloop Investigator on the orders of its commander, Matthew Flinders, 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. Данное издание представляет...

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