Crossword-Solution: SWEER 5 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

There’s just a waukrif’ twa or three: Thrawn commentautors sweer to ’gree, Weans glowrin’ at the bumlin’ bee On windie-glasses, Or lads that tak a keek a-glee At sonsie lasses.

Vanderlin Island, after Cornelis Van der Lyn; Sweer's Island, after Salamon Sweers; Maria Island, after his supposed sweetheart, Maria Van Dieman; and Limmen Bight, after his ship, the LIMMEN.

This Will, which turned out to 'be an island, Flinders judged to be a headland marked on the western side of "Maatsuyker's River." The river he failed to discover, to the island he gave the name of Sweer's Island.

Leaving Sweer's Island, Flinders next investigated Cape Van Dieman, and found it to be an island, which he called Mornington Island.

Their first stay of any length was at Sweer's Island, and all the coastal inlets in the neighbourhood were well examined, resulting in the discovery of the Flinders River, on the 20th July, and of the Albert on the 1st of August.