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Norfolk
Colonial-built decked boat, 25 tons. Flinders' first command. Bass and Flinders circumnavigated Van Diemens Land (Tasmania) in the 'Norfolk' in 1798 and proved there was a strait between the mainland and Van Diemens Land. Flinders named it Bass's Strait.

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