Flinders

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Flinders may refer to:

Places

Antarctica

  • Flinders Peak, near the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula

Australia

New South Wales

Queensland

  • Electoral district of Flinders (Queensland), former state electoral district
  • Flinders Highway, Queensland
  • Flinders Island (Queensland), part of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park
  • Flinders Reef
  • Flinders River
  • Flinders View, Queensland, a suburb of Ipswich
  • Shire of Flinders (Queensland), a Local Government Area located in north western Queensland

South Australia

  • County of Flinders, a cadastral unit
  • Electoral district of Flinders, a state electoral district
  • Flinders, South Australia, former name of the town of Streaky Bay.
  • Flinders Highway, South Australia
  • Flinders Island (South Australia), in the Investigator Group
  • Flinders Medical Centre, the hospital associated with the Flinders University
  • Flinders Park, South Australia, an inner-western suburb of Adelaide
  • Flinders Ranges (disambiguation), articles associated with the mountain range
  • Flinders Street, Adelaide
  • Flinders railway station
  • Flinders University

Tasmania

  • Flinders Council, a local government area
  • Flinders Island, in the Furneaux Group, in Bass Strait

Victoria

Western Australia

Canada

People

  • Flinders Petrie (1853–1942), English Egyptologist
  • Matthew Flinders (academic) (born 1972), British academic and political scientist
  • Matthew Flinders (1774–1814), British explorer, after whom all the geographic features listed above were directly or indirectly named.
  • Mesh Flinders (born 1979), American screenwriter
  • Scott Flinders (born 1986), English football goalkeeper

Other

  • Flinders (ship), several ships of this name, including:
    • HMAS Flinders (GS 312), a survey ship in service 1973-1998
    • Flinders (schooner), a South Australian Government vessel 1865–1873
  • The Flinders News, a South Australian newspaper published in Port Pirie
  • Flinders Ranges mogurnda, a gudgeon (fish)
  • 10203 Flinders, an asteroid

See also

  • All pages with titles beginning with Flinders
  • All pages with titles containing Flinders
  • Flinders Island (disambiguation)
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