Grave of explorer Matthew Flinders unearthed near London station

The grave and body of British explorer Captain Matthew Flinders, the first person to circumnavigate Australia, have been discovered after 200 years near London’s Euston station.Photograph: Imagno/Getty Images

Some said he was buried under platform 4; others suggested platform 12 or 15. When a statue of Captain Matthew Flinders was installed at Euston in 2014, the only regret of those who had campaigned for a memorial to the explorer – who led the first circumnavigation of Australia – was that his final resting place, understood to be somewhere near the London rail station, was unlikely ever to be known.