The HS2 project has been plagued by delays, setbacks and ever-mounting costs.
But now developers have encountered another unexpected obstacle - the body of a renowned Royal Navy explorer.
Archaeologists have discovered the remains of Captain Matthew Flinders, who led the first circumnavigation of Australia, during an excavation of a burial ground in London.
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There are more than 40,000 people interred at the site in Euston, where workers are trying to excavate the area
Archaeologists working on the HS2 project in St. James's burial ground, Euston, looking over the discovered remains of Captain Matthew Flinders (left) and the breast plate of Captain Matthew Flinders's remains (right)
Captain Flinders, who is also credited with giving Australia its name, is one of tens of thousands of skeletons that will be removed from the burial ground in Euston where the HS2 rail route will be built.
The discovery so early in the dig has thrilled archaeologists who were not confident they would find the explorer among the 40,000 people interred there.
They were able to identify his remains by the lead breast plate placed on top of his coffin when he was buried on July 23, 1814.
Captain Flinders made several significant journeys, notably as commander of HMS Investigator, in which became the first known person to navigate around the entire coast of Australia and confirm it as a continent.
His surname is associated with many places in Australia, including Flinders Station in Melbourne, Flinders Ranges in South Australia and the town of Flinders in Victoria.
The headstone marking his final resting place was removed following the expansion of Euston station in the 1840s, and it was thought his remains had been lost.
Captain Flinders made several significant journeys, notably as commander of HMS Investigator, in which became the first known person to navigate around the entire coast of Australia and confirm it as a continent
Tens of thousands of skeletons will be removed from the burial ground where the station for the HS2 rail route will be built. Pictured: One of the workers by the remains of a person buried there
The cleaned version of the breast plate (right) and a photo of the breast plate in the ground (left)
200 years after his death, a statue was unveiled by the Duke of Cambridge at Australia House and later installed at Euston station.
It features Trim the cat, who accompanied the captain during his voyages of exploration.
Helen Wass, HS2 head of heritage, said: 'The discovering of Captain Matthew Flinders' remains is an incredibly opportunity for us to learn more about the life and remarkable achievements of this British navigator, hydrographer and scientist.
'Cpt Matthew Flinders put Australia on the map due to his tenacity and expertise as a navigator and explorer.
'We'll now be able to study his skeleton to see whether life at sea left its mark and what more we can learn about him.'
She added: 'This discovery is particularly exciting for me as an archaeologist as Cpt Matthew Flinders was the grandfather of renowned Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie, commonly known as the 'father of archaeology'.'
Captain Flinders will be reinterred with the buried population of St James's Gardens at a location to be announced.
Captain Flinders: British navigator, hydrographer and scientist
Capt Flinders is famous for sailing the HMS Investigator around Australia with Englishman George Bass and Indigenous man Bungaree between July 1802 and May 1803.
That voyage proved to the Europeans that Australia was a single continent, rather than two separate landmasses previously called New Holland and New South Wales.
Capt Flinders is also widely credited with popularising the name Australia as well, even though he was not the first to coin the term.
The navigator and scientist was born in March 16 1774 in Donington, Lincolnshire and was educated at Donington Grammar School.
From a young age, Flinders, had a passion to set sail and explore the world after reading Robinson Crusoe
His father was Matthew Flinders, a surgeon and his mother was named Sussanah.
The precocious teenager had a yearning for adventure and after reading Robinson Crusoe, wanted to take to the high seas, so joined the navy at the age of fifteen in 1789.
He set sail in 1791 under the direction of William Bigh on a voyage to transport breadfruit from Tahiti to Jamaica and then in, after returning to England, saw action at the naval battle of the Glorious First in June 1794.
In a voyage on the HMS Reliance in 1795, and on his first voyage to New South Wales, Flinner was noted as a brilliant cartographer and navigator.
Flinders was promoted to lieutenant in 1798 and visited the Furneaux Islands, with a visit to Norfolk Island following soon afterwards.
He sailed back to England in 1800 and in 1801 published Observations on the Coasts of Van Diemen's Land, on Bass's Strait and its Islands, and on Part of the Coasts of New South Wales.
Flinders was given the command of HMS Investigator in January 1801 and set sail for New Holland later that year, but prior to leaving married Ann Chappelle.
He set sail in July 1801 and landed in Cape Leeuwin in December of that year before extensively surveying the southern Australian mainland.
Flinders moved extensively along the coast, before heading to Sydney in 1802, with the ship running low of supplies and also leaking.
He left Australia soon after the circumnavigation as a passenger on HMS Porpoise in 1803.
But the ship was wrecked on the Great Barrier Reef and he ended up sailing a cutter more than 1000km back to Sydney to arrange for a rescue of the crew.
Capt Flinders again tried to sail back to England later that year, this time in command of HMS Cumberland, but he ended up being imprisoned by suspicious French officials on Mauritius for six years.
He finally made it back to England in 1810 where he began preparing his circumnavigation voyage journal for publication.
By then he was in very poor health.
Capt Flinders finally published A Voyage to Terra Australis on July 18, 1814. He died the following day aged 40.
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Archaeologists have discovered the remains of Captain Matthew Flinders, who led the first...
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