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Flinders has a university, Ranges and sundry other things named after him. Bass has Bass straight named after him. Australians have the whole name to thank Flinders for as he popularised and named in his chart the name Australia for.the continent instead of New South Wales and New Holland.  His chart of Australia is regarded by some as the first to show the entire continent although the French detained him on his return voyage and the chart of the Baudin expedition was published first. I have read the journals of Cook, Flinders and Baidin. All three were incredibly clever and had great stamina, ever in their own times.

So, in Australia Flinders is well known but probably not by everyone. Bass Strait is known by most but not who it is named after. At school in the 1970s we learnt that Cook discovered Australia (He didn't, he filled in the missing bit) and the Bass and Banks sailed a little boat called Tom Thumb down to Bass strait to confirm Tasmania is an Island. ( They did).