Other uses Infobox islands name FlindersIsland image name Flinders island.jpg image caption Furneaux ... admin divisions 1 Municipality of FlindersIsland country largest city Whitemark, Tasmania Whitemark ... ethnic groups FlindersIsland is an island in Bass Strait . It is convert 20 km from Cape Portland, Tasmania Cape Portland , the north eastern tip of Tasmania , Australia and is the largest island in the Furneaux Group . History FlindersIsland was first colonised at least 35,000 years ago, when ... the islands, Furneaux s Islands, after Tobias Furneaux. Flinders named the largest island in the group Great Island he also named a group of mountains on FlindersIsland, the three patriarchs , the small island just to the East, Flinders named Babel Island from the noises made by the sea birds . Phillip Parker King, later named FlindersIsland, after Matthew Flinders. ref Matthew Flinders Observations ... R.W.Giblin 1928 ref There is three Islands named FlindersIsland The Large Island on the East ... and an Island in the Flinders Group, North of Cooktown in Queensland, was named after Matthew Flinders ... or Wybalenna , meaning Black Man s House on FlindersIsland. These 160 survivors were deemed to be safe ... Tasmania and central New South Wales to FlindersIsland s eastern shore. The Municipality of FlindersIsland was instituted in 1903. ref name fof http www.focusonflinders.com.au about.htm Focus on Flinders ... of the Municipality of FlindersIsland Local Government Areas of Tasmania local government area . FlindersIsland is only one of the many islands included in the Municipal area. Of these islands Flinders ... terminate at FlindersIsland Airport about 3 km north of Whitemark. As of 4th October 2010, Sharp Airlines has been operating services between Essendon, FlindersIsland and Launceston. A ferry ... averages tables cw 099005.shtml Whitemark climate averages ref Weather box location FlindersIsland ... North East Tasmania de FlindersIsland es Isla Flinders fa fr FlindersIsland gl Illa ... more details
FlindersIsland may refer to In Australia FlindersIsland Tasmania , in the Furneaux Group , is the largest and best known FlindersIsland Queensland FlindersIsland South Australia , in the Investigator Group FlindersIsland Western Australia Flinders Islet is one of the Five Islands Nature Reserve Five Islands near Port Kembla. geodis ... more details
FlindersIsland coord 33 43 S 134 29 E ref Gazetteer of Australia name FlindersIsland id 176320 ref is an island in the Investigator Group off the coast of South Australia . The island was named by Matthew Flinders after his younger brother Samuel Flinders , a midshipman on HMS Investigator in 1801. ref gutenberg no 7304 name The Life of Captain Matthew Flinders author Ernest Scott ref The island has recently been When date March 2011 the attention of active diamond exploration following the discovery of a wide range of kimberlite indicator minerals on the island. ref Cooper, S.A., 2004. New diamond field discovered in SA. MESA Journal 24, 6 9. http www.pir.sa.gov.au dhtml ss section.php?sectID 972 Primary Industries & Resources South Australia publication. ref These minerals include chromite, pyrope, diopside, picroilmenite, forsterite, orthopyroxene, as well as eight small diamonds. References references Eyre Peninsula Category Islands of South Australia Category Eyre Peninsula fr Flindersisland Investigator zh classical ... more details
Infobox Airport name FlindersIsland Airport nativename nativename a nativename r image image width caption IATA FLS ICAO YFLI type Public owner operator Flinders Council city served location Whitemark, Tasmania elevation f 33 elevation m 10 coordinates Coord 40 4 59 S 148 0 0 E type airport display inline,title website metric elev metric rwy r1 number 14 32 r1 length f 5,643 r1 length m 1,720 r1 surface Asphalt r2 number 05 23 r2 length f 3,510 r2 length m 1,070 r2 surface Asphalt stat year stat1 header stat1 data stat2 header stat2 data footnotes FlindersIsland Airport Airport codes FLS YFLI is a small regional airport located near the town of Whitemark, Tasmania Whitemark on FlindersIsland, Tasmania FlindersIsland off the north east coast of Tasmania , Australia . The airport is owned and operated by the Flinders Council. Airlines and destinations Sharp Airlines Melbourne Essedon,Launceston http www.sharpairlines.com.au References Reflist added above External links Sources by script assisted edit Airports in Australia Category Airports in Tasmania Category Bass Strait Category North East Tasmania Australia airport stub ... more details
Unreferenced stub auto yes date December 2009 Infobox Australian place type island name FlindersIsland state qld image caption postcode pop pop footnotes est elevation coordinates coord 14 10 48 S 144 15 36 E display title,inline pushpin label position right latd 14 latm 10 lats 48 longd 144 longm 15 longs 36 maxtemp mintemp rainfall lga Cook Shire Council stategov Electoral district of Cook Cook fedgov Division of Leichhardt Leichardt dist1 dir1 location1 timezone utc timezone dst utc dst FlindersIsland is part of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park at the tip of Cape Melville , Queensland in Bathurst Bay . It is north of Denham Island, Queensland Denham Island in the Flinders Group National Park . It is separated from Stanley Island, Queensland Stanley Island by Owen Channel and Maclear Island by Fly Channel . In the nineteenth century it was one of the earliest centres recruiting lugger crews for the pearling trade. There is a major residential site on the sandspit. The island is a popular tourist destination with an anchorage point for yachts. FlindersIsland is an integral part of the mythological complex of the Flinders Group. References Reflist Queensland national park stub Category Islands on the Great Barrier Reef id Pulau Flinders Queensland zh classical ... more details
Infobox Disease Name FlindersIsland spotted fever Image Caption DiseasesDB ICD10 ICD10 A 77 8 a 75 ICD9 ICDO OMIM MedlinePlus eMedicineSubj eMedicineTopic MeshID FlindersIsland spotted fever is a condition characterized by a rash in approximately 85 of cases. ref name Bolognia cite book author Rapini, Ronald P. Bolognia, Jean L. Jorizzo, Joseph L. title Dermatology 2 Volume Set publisher Mosby location St. Louis year 2007 pages 1130 isbn 1 4160 2999 0 oclc doi accessdate ref It is associated with Rickettsia honei . ref name pmid17553271 cite journal author Unsworth NB, Stenos J, Graves SR, et al. title FlindersIsland spotted fever rickettsioses caused by marmionii strain of Rickettsia honei, Eastern Australia journal Emerging Infect. Dis. volume 13 issue 4 pages 566 73 year 2007 month April pmid 17553271 pmc 2725950 doi 10.3201 eid1304.060087 url ref See also Japanese spotted fever North Asian tick typhus List of cutaneous conditions FlindersIsland References reflist Gram negative proteobacterial diseases Category Bacterium related cutaneous conditions Dermatology stub ... more details
Orphan date February 2009 The FlindersIsland Chronicle was an Australia n newspaper founded in September 1836 and running until December 1837. It was jointly written and edited by Thomas Brune and Walter George Arthur. Twenty nine editions are currently known of. ref Papers of George Augustus Robinson, ML A7073, vol. 52, part 4, Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales ref It is notable as being the first newspaper produced by Indigenous Australians . The FlindersIsland Chronicle was produced at the Aboriginal settlement on FlindersIsland , where many Tasmanian Aborigine s were exiled in the early 1830s, following the Black War . Thomas Brune, aged about fourteen, and Walter George Arthur, aged about seventeen, were the most literate amongst the children who had been educated at the Hobart Orphan school. They were selected by George Augustus Robinson as writers and in September 1836 wrote a Prospectus and First Edition. blockquote we date our history of Events from the Month of October 1835 when our beloved father made his appearance among us... we had been in a deplorable state. we looked for a better day. and it has arrived what a contrast between the present and the past ref Thomas Brune, FlindersIsland Chronicle, 10 September 1836 ref blockquote There was a break ... George Arthur, FlindersIsland Chronicle, 6 November 1837 ref blockquote and abuse blockquote hear ... dont attend to it I must be put in to joal ref name Thomas Brune, FlindersIsland Chronicle, 7 December 1837 , additional text. ref blockquote The FlindersIsland Chronicle was dominated by messages ... from editing duties. By late December 1837, the Aboriginal inhabitants of FlindersIsland began openly defying Robinson. The final issue of the FlindersIsland Chronicle was produced on 21 ... as a drover on a run from Melbourne to Adelaide. In 1842, he returned to FlindersIsland and assumed ... Aboriginal activist. ref H. Reynolds, Walter George Arthur Pioneer Aboriginal activist , Island, 49 ... more details
There are many places with the word Flinders in their name. Most of these are in south east Australia and are named for explorer Matthew Flinders . Flinders may refer to Places Cape Flinders , in the northern Canadian territory of Nunavut Division of Flinders , federal House of Representatives electoral division in Victoria Electoral district of Flinders , state House of Assembly electoral district in South Australia Electoral district of Flinders Queensland , former state electoral district in Queensland Flinders Bay , Western Australia Flinders Council , Tasmania Flinders County , New South Wales Flinders Highway, Queensland Flinders Highway, South Australia FlindersIsland Queensland , part of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park FlindersIsland South Australia , in the Investigator Group FlindersIsland Tasmania , in the Furneaux Group, in Bass Strait Flinders Lane, Melbourne Flinders Medical Centre , the hospital associated with the Flinders University of South Australia Flinders, New South Wales redlink , a suburb of Shellharbour, New South Wales Flinders Park, now known as Melbourne Park , home of the Australian Open Tennis Championships Flinders Park, South Australia , an inner western suburb of Adelaide Flinders Peak , near the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula, Antarctica Flinders railway station , Shellharbour, New South Wales Flinders Ranges , South Australia Flinders Ranges National Park , South Australia Flinders Reef , Queensland Flinders River , Queensland Flinders Street, Adelaide Flinders Street Station , Melbourne Flinders Street, Melbourne Flinders Street Viaduct , Melbourne Flinders University , formally, the Flinders University of South Australia Flinders University Hall , on campus students residence Flinders, Victoria , a historic town south of Melbourne on the Mornington Peninsula Flinders View, Queensland , a suburb of Ipswich Flinders Wharf , Melbourne Shire of Flinders Queensland , a Local Government Area located in north western Queensland ... more details
Infobox Australian Place type lga name Flinders Council state Tasmania image LGATasmania Flinders.png caption Flinders Council pop formatnum 897 pop footnotes 2009 ref cite web url http www.abs.gov.au ausstats abs .nsf Latestproducts 3218.0Main 20Features92008 09?opendocument&tabname Summary&prodno 3218.0&issue 2008 09&num &view title Regional Population Growth, Australia, 2008 09 author Australian Bureau of Statistics date 30 March 2010 accessdate 4 June 2010 ref area 1333 est seat Whitemark, Tasmania Whitemark mayor Terence Klug region Furneaux Group and surrounding island groups logo url http www.flinders.tas.gov.au stategov Division of Bass state Bass fedgov Division of Bass Bass near nw Bass Strait near n Bass Strait near ne Bass Strait near w Bass Strait near e Bass Strait near sw Dorset Council Dorset near s Bass Strait near se Bass Strait coordinates coord 40 0 50 S 148 03 21 E type adm2nd source GA display inline,title Flinders Council is a Local Government Areas in Australia Local Government Area of Tasmania . It covers more than 60 islands off the north eastern tip of Tasmania at the eastern end of Bass Strait . Of these 60, only three have permanent populations Clarke Island Tasmania Clarke Island , Cape Barren Island , and the largest and most populous, FlindersIsland . References Reflist External links http www.flinders.tas.gov.au Flinders Council Category Local Government Areas of Tasmania Category Bass Strait Category North East Tasmania de Flinders Municipality fr Conseil de Flinders nl Flinders Council pl Flinders Council ... more details
There are two Australian highway s called the Flinders Highway . Flinders Highway, South Australia Flinders Highway, Queensland disambig de Flinders Highway ... more details
friend. In honour of this discovery, the largest island in Bass Strait would later be named FlindersIsland . The town of Flinders, Victoria Flinders near the mouth of Western Port also commemorates Flinders discovery of that bay and port on 4 January 1798. Flinders once more sailed the Norfolk ..., in June 1809 the Royal Navy began a blockade of the island, and in June 1810 Flinders was paroled ... afforded greater freedoms to move around the island and access his papers. In November 1804 Flinders ... in Australia in addition to FlindersIsland, in Bass Strait. Flinders is seen as being particularly ... Park , Flinders Chase National Park on Kangaroo Island , Flinders University , Flinders Medical ...For the British academic Matthew Flinders academic Refimprove date March 2009 Infobox person name Matthew Flinders image Flinders01.jpg image size 200px birth date 16 March 1774 birth place Donington, Lincolnshire ... Ships Officer spouse Ann Chappelle Captain Royal Navy Captain Matthew Flinders Royal Navy RN 16 March ... ref . Early life Born in Donington, Lincolnshire , England , the son of Matthew Flinders, a surgeon ... Providence 1791 6 , transporting breadfruit from Tahiti to Jamaica . This was also young Flinders first ... to New South Wales Flinders first trip to Port Jackson was in 1795 as a midshipman aboard HMS Reliance ... in Port Jackson , Bass and Flinders made two expeditions in small open boats, both boats were called ... of Daniel Paine 1794 1797 page 39 ref south from Port Jackson to Lake Illawarra . Image Bass Flinders Westernport discovery memorial.JPG thumb right 200px Memorial at Flinders, Victoria commemorating the discovery of Western Port on 4 January 1798, and the later passage of Bass Strait . In 1798, Flinders ... Island and also rowed ashore at Clontarf, Queensland Clontarf . During this visit he named Redcliffe after the Red Cliffs. In March 1800, Flinders rejoined the Reliance which set sail for England. Command of the Investigator Main HMS Investigator 1798 Flinders work had come to the attention ... more details
Flinders Street , named after explorer Matthew Flinders , may refer to Flinders Street, Adelaide Flinders Street, Melbourne Flinders Street Station , a railway station in Melbourne Flinders Street Viaduct , a railway bridge in Melbourne See also Flinders disambiguation dab ... more details
Shire of Flinders can relate to one of two Local Government Areas in Australia , each named after Captain Matthew Flinders The current Shire of Flinders Queensland The former Shire of Flinders Victoria geodis ... more details
Infobox Scientist name Flinders Petrie box width image WMFPetrie.jpg image width 222px caption Professor Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie birth date birth date 3 June 1853 3 June 1853 birth place Charlton ... influences influenced prizes religion footnotes signature Professor Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie Fellow of the Royal Society FRS 3 June 1853 &ndash 28 July 1942 , known as Flinders Petrie , was an England ... himself concurred. ref Margaret S. Drower, Flinders Petrie A Life in Archaeology , 1995, p.221 ... , England , the son of William Petrie 1821 1908 and Anne n e Flinders 1812 1892 . Anne was the daughter of Captain Matthew Flinders , surveyor of the Australia n coastline. He was raised in a devout ... excavating and surveying ancient sites in Egypt and the Levant . Flinders Petrie was encouraged from ... all that was in it and how it lay. ref William Matthew Flinders Petrie, Seventy Years in Archaeology ... profiles sir william flinders petrie 1853 1942 title Sir William Flinders Petrie publisher Palestine ... and later William Matthew Flinders Petrie UCL appointed him as Professor at her Egyptology chair ... on Sehel Island . By the end of the Tanis dig he ran out of funding but, reluctant to leave the country ... record than sketches. During this time he also climbed rope ladders at Sehel Island near Aswan to draw ... conducting excavations on a temple in Petrie s area of concession at Luxor. ref Drower, Flinders Petrie ... III which had been built on a flood plain. ref Drower, Flinders Petrie, p.221 ref They were ... made headlines when it reached the English papers. ref Drower, Flinders Petrie, p.221 ref Petrie ... Image Flinders Petrie headstone Protestant Cemetery Jerusalem Israel c. 2009 2.JPG thumb right 220px Flinders Petrie headstone Protestant Cemetery Jerusalem Israel 1923 saw Petrie knighted for services ... archaeology seriation in Egyptology, a new method for establishing the chronology of a site. Flinders ... his followers. Publications wikisource Author Flinders Petrie A number of Petrie s discoveries ... more details
Flinders Reef is a small isolated reef near Moreton Island , 5 km north west of Cape Moreton in South East Queensland . It has the highest number of coral species of any sub tropical reef system along Australia s east coast and is the nearest true coral reef to Brisbane . Flinders Reef is one of Queensland s most popular dive site s. ref name fre cite web url http www.goldcoast.com.au article 2009 03 17 60191 gold coast news.html title Flinders Reef escapes oil slick author Seanna Cronin accessdate 2008 03 26 date 2009 03 17 work goldcoast.com.au publisher Gold Coast Publications ref The reef is protected within the Moreton Bay Marine Park and is monitored by the Reef Check Conservation movement conservation program. There is a second Flinders Reef in the Coral Sea located at 120 nautical miles north east of Townsville, Queensland Townsville . There is a weather station located there that is monitored by the Australian Government . ref http www.bom.gov.au products IDQ60701 IDQ60701.94290.shtml Latest Coastal Weather Observations for Flinders Reef ref A third Flinders Reef exists offshore from the town of 1770, Queensland 1770 . Fauna The reef has more than 175 fish species. citation needed date March 2009 There are more species and varieties of corals in this one area than any other single reef on the Great Barrier Reef . The diverse amount of marine life include schools of Wrasse, Sweetlip, Trevally, Parrot, Bat, Surgeon, turtles and tropical fish. Manta Rays, Wobbegongs and Leopard Sharks are among the larger creatures that reside here. Sightings of Whaler sharks are sometimes seen on the eastern side of Flinders. During the months of June to September, Humpback Whales can be seen on the surface as they pass by. History In 1986 the Australian Army ship Crusader AV2767 was sunk near the reef and has become a popular dive wreck. The reef was zoned as a marine park in 1998. The reef was not affected by the 2009 southeast Queensland oil spill . ref name ... more details
File StateLibQld 1 164135 Flooding of the Flinders River at Hughenden, January 1917.jpg thumb Flooding of the Flinders River at Hughenden, January 1917 The Flinders River is the longest river in Queensland , Australia at about convert 1004 km mi . The river rises in the Great Dividing Range northeast of Hughenden, Queensland Hughenden and flows past Hughenden, Richmond, Queensland Richmond and Julia Creek, Queensland Julia Creek then northwest to the Gulf of Carpentaria near Karumba, Queensland and 2nd longest in Australia. The principal tributaries are the Cloncurry River and the Corella River . The Flinders was named after the explorer Matthew Flinders . Matthew Flinders was on a exploration when he came across a river. He named it after himself. commons category coord 17 36 S 140 36 E display title region AU type river source GNS enwiki Category Rivers of Queensland Category North West Queensland Queensland geo stub cs Flinders eka da Flinders de Flinders River fr Flinders fleuve ka lt Flindersas ja pl Flinders ru uk ... more details
Infobox Planet minorplanet yes width 25em bgcolour FFFFC0 apsis name Flinders symbol image caption discovery yes discovery ref discoverer F. B. Zoltowski discovery site Woomera, South Australia Woomera discovered August 01, 1997 designations yes mp name 10203 alt names 1997 PQ named after Matthew Flinders mp category orbit ref epoch May 14, 2008 aphelion 2.3802345 perihelion 2.0248577 semimajor eccentricity 0.0806741 period 1193.9494621 avg speed inclination 4.69384 asc node 125.16069 mean anomaly 344.85185 arg peri 306.66262 satellites physical characteristics yes dimensions mass density surface grav escape velocity sidereal day axial tilt pole ecliptic lat pole ecliptic lon albedo temperatures temp name1 mean temp 1 max temp 1 temp name2 max temp 2 spectral type abs magnitude 15.0 10203 Flinders 1997 PQ is a Asteroid belt main belt asteroid discovered on August 1, 1997 by F. B. Zoltowski at Woomera, South Australia Woomera . References references External links http ssd.jpl.nasa.gov sbdb.cgi?sstr 10203 Flinders JPL Small Body Database Browser on 10203 Flinders MinorPlanets Navigator 10202 1997 PE 10204 Turing MinorPlanets Footer DEFAULTSORT Flinders Category Main Belt asteroids Category Asteroids named for people Category Astronomical objects discovered in 1997 beltasteroid stub fa it 10203 Flinders hu 10203 Flinders pl 10203 Flinders pt 10203 Flinders ... more details
Flinders Bay is a bay and locality that is immediately south of the townsite of Augusta, Western Australia , and close to the mouth of the Blackwood River and lies to the north east of Cape Leeuwin . Bay Flinders Bay 34 21 00 S. 115 20 00 E On Matthew Flinders Terra Australis Sheet 1 1801 1803 the area was originally known as Dangerous Bight . The bay runs from Point Matthew 1.5km East North East of Cape Leeuwin to Ledge Point some 8 km east. It was named by either James Stirling Australian governor James Stirling or Septimus Roe in 1829 or 1830. Matthew Flinders was first in the Bay on the 7th December 1801. Image Flinders plaque.jpg thumb left Plaque at Point Matthew lookout on road to Cape Leeuwin Railway terminus and Jetty The name of the locality of Flinders Bay is tied to the small settlement that had been a whaling and fishing location, as well as the terminus of the Busselton to Flinders Bay Branch Railway railway line 1920s closed 1957 , and the earlier Flinders Bay jetty 1890s . The settlement was in the earlier days considered to be separate from Augusta but now is more or less the southern portion of the larger community. The need for safe, and efficient transfer of whale watchers, and a safe mooring location in the Bay for fishermen has seen a proposal for a marina in 2004 which had included plans for the marina close to the old settlement of Flinders Bay. The 2005 revised proposal has moved to a bay further around towards Cape Leeuwin. Image Flinders bay whaling.jpg thumb View of the Flinders Bay whaling and settlement from the north Whaling The landing area adjacent to the old railway station yard, was original known as The Whaling . It was the area where boats would work from in the nineteenth and early twentieth century. Up until the early 1970s sheds and ramps ... of Nicholas Baudin and Matthew Flinders , Kent Town, South Australia,Wakefield Press,2004. ISBN ... Category Bays of Western Australia WesternAustralia geo stub it Flinders Bay ... more details
Matt Flinders , born Sylvan Louis Bonett in Alexandria , Egypt , is a singer who rose to prominence in the late 1960s in Australia . Of French, English and Italian background, Flinders migrated to Australia with his family in 1951. Following National Service training with the Royal Australian Air Force RAAF in the 1950s, he toured Australia, Japan and England as a double bass player and singer, later being appointed as a bandleader at the Chevron Hotel in Melbourne . ref name flinders cite web url http www.mattflinders.ycn.com.au title Matt Flinders accessdate 2007 12 16 last first coauthors date work publisher accessed through Internet Archive archiveurl http web.archive.org web 20051225015208 http www.mattflinders.ycn.com.au archivedate 2005 12 25 ref Born to a music loving family, Flinders brothers also enjoyed the limelight of musical careers the late Roland Bonet was a popular performer and dance band leader in Melbourne until his death in 2002 Arnold, the eldest, performed many roles as an operatic bass baritone for the National Theatre Opera and the ABC and was presented with an award ..., Flinders was discovered by Ron Tudor of Astor Records who suggested the name change to Matt Flinders after the explorer Matthew Flinders which was deemed to be easier to pronounce and remember than his birth name. ref name flindersFlinders had two top ten singles in Australia Picking up Pebbles 1969 ... Matt Flinders Picking up Pebbles accessdate 2007 12 16 last first coauthors date work publisher ... musician. Flinders appeared on his own television show , Matt Flinders and Friends 1972 1973 , as well as his own radio show, both for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation ABC . ref name flinders cite web url http www.mattflinders.ycn.com.au title Matt Flinders Picking up Pebbles accessdate 2007 ... web 20051225015208 http www.mattflinders.ycn.com.au archivedate 2005 12 25 ref Flinders ... wife, Coralie. References references DEFAULTSORT Flinders, Matt Category Australian television personalities ... more details
Unreferenced stub auto yes date December 2009 Infobox Ship Begin Infobox Ship Image Ship image Ship caption Infobox Ship Career Ship country Australia RAN Ship flag Image Naval Ensign of Australia.svg 60px RAN ensign Ship namesake Matthew Flinders Ship builder HMA Naval Dockyard, Williamstown Ship laid down 11 June 1971 Ship launched 29 July 1972 Ship commissioned 27 April 1973 Ship decommissioned 1998 Ship motto Ship nickname Ship honours Ship fate Ship notes Ship badge Infobox Ship Characteristics Ship type Oceanographic survey ship Ship displacement Ship length Ship beam Ship draught Ship propulsion Ship speed Ship complement Ship sensors Ship EW Ship armament Ship notes HMAS Flinders A 312 , named for Matthew Flinders 1774 1814 , was an oceanographic survey ship of the Royal Australian Navy RAN . Flinders was laid down by HMA Naval Dockyard at Williamstown, Victoria on 11 June 1971. She was launched on 29 July 1972 and commissioned into the RAN on 27 April 1973. Flinders was decommissioned in 1998. DEFAULTSORT Flinders A 312 , Hmas Category Royal Australian Navy survey ships Category 1972 ships Australia mil ship stub ... more details
Infobox Australian Place type town name Flinders state vic image caption lga Shire of Mornington Peninsula postcode 3929 pop 787 2006 ref name abs Census 2006 AUS id SSC25603 name Flinders State Suburb accessdate 2007 10 01 quick on ref est 1854 stategov Electoral district of Nepean Nepean fedgov Division of FlindersFlinders dist1 86 location1 Melbourne dist2 19 location2 Rosebud, Victoria Rosebud near nw Boneo, Victoria Boneo near n Main Ridge, Victoria Main Ridge near ne Red Hill, Victoria Red Hill near w Boneo, Victoria Boneo near e Shoreham, Victoria Shoreham near sw near s near se Flinders is a historic town south of Melbourne , Victoria Australia Victoria , Australia , located on the Mornington Peninsula at the point where Western Port meets Bass Strait . Its Local Government Area is the Shire of Mornington Peninsula . At the 2006 Census in Australia census , Flinders had a population of 787. History The town was named by George Bass after his friend, the explorer and British naval officer Captain Matthew Flinders . Settlement commenced in 1854 and many pioneers and settlers are buried at the Flinders cemetery. Flinders Post Office opened on 7 March 1863 as the population grew. ref name a Citation last Premier Postal History title Post Office List url https www.premierpostal.com cgi bin wsProd.sh Viewpocdwrapper.p?SortBy VIC&country accessdate 2008 04 11 ref Present day The town has a picturesque golf course built on a cliff top on Bass Street operated by the Flinders Golf Club. ref name golf Citation author Golf Select title Flinders url http www.golfselect.com.au armchair ... www.mpbonline.com.au Content Pub ContentDetail.asp?lngContentID 248 title Find Out More About Flinders ... ed., 2001 ref Flinders was the original home of http www.flindersbread.com.au Flinders Bread , available ... a weapons training facility and gunnery on West Head. It is restricted to the public. Flinders is served ... route view 979 782 Frankston Flinders , effective 19 April 2004. Accessed 27 November 2006. ref ... more details
A Flinders bar is a vertical soft iron bar placed in a tube on the fore side of a compass binnacle . The Flinders bar is used to counteract the vertical magnetism inherent within a ship and is usually calibrated as part of the process known as swinging the compass , where deviations caused by this inherent magnetism are negated by the use of horizontal or quadrantal correctors. ref cite book title American Practical Navigator http www.nga.mil portal site maritime ?epi menuItemID c56aa099e2bff9525b2a7fbd3227a759&epi menuID 35ad5b8aabcefa1a0fc133443927a759&epi baseMenuID e106a3b5e50edce1fec24fd73927a759 first Nathaniel last Bowditch authorlink Nathaniel Bowditch year 2002 edition bicentennial publisher National Geospatial Intelligence Agency ref Where the deviation from a Boxing the compass compass point cannot be counteracted through the use of Flinders bar, William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin Kelvin s balls, Heeling error magnets and Horizontal magnets, a deviation card , or graph, is produced. This card, or graph, lists the deviation for various compass courses and is referred to by the navigator when compass courses need to be corrected. It is named after Matthew Flinders 1774 1814 who wrote a paper on ships magnetism for the British Navy . ref name flinders Miriam Estensen The life of Matthew Flinders p 460 ref ref cite journal last Flinders first Matthew authorlink Matthew Flinders title Concerning the Differences in the Magnetic Needle, on Board the Investigator, Arising from an Alteration in the Direction of the Ship s Head journal Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society year 1805 volume 95 pages 186&ndash 197 doi 10.1098 rstl.1805.0012 ref References Reflist External links http www.rgsq.org.au flse3 2B.htm Flinders education unit from Royal Geographical Society of Queensland Category Sailing ship elements Category Navigational equipment ... more details
Infobox University name The Flinders University of South Australia motto Inspiring Achievement established ... image Image FlindersUniversity.png 150px Image Flinders from hill.jpg right 300px thumb View of Flinders University main campus, with central plaza and lakeside area visible. Flinders University , The Flinders University of South Australia , is a public university in Adelaide , South Australia . Founded in 1966, it was named in honour of navigator Matthew Flinders , who explored and surveyed ... TopAsia EN .htm Bot retrieved archive archivedate 2008 08 22 ref History Flinders University was opened ... needed date September 2008 The university takes its name from British navigator Matthew Flinders ... of Flinders ship Investigator and an extract from his book A Voyage to Terra Australis . A significant early initiative was the decision to build the Flinders Medical Centre on land adjacent ..., Flinders merged with the adjacent Sturt Campus of the former South Australian College of Advanced ... region. Organisation Image Flinders humanities courtyard.jpg 300px right thumb View of the courtyard of the Humanities building of the Flinders University. Flinders University offers more than 160 undergraduate ... Health Sciences Flinders University publisher Flinders.edu.au date 2010 09 22 accessdate 2010 09 ... & Engineering Home Page Flinders University publisher Scieng.flinders.edu.au date 2010 09 22 accessdate ... socsci title Social and Behavioural Sciences Flinders University publisher Flinders.edu.au date 2010 09 22 accessdate 2010 09 26 ref Affiliates Australian Science and Mathematics School Flinders ... 2008 Housing main Flinders University Hall Flinders is the only South Australian university with on campus ... Deirdre Jordan Village self catered . For off campus accommodation, Flinders Housing run a free .... Media The Empire Times was published by the Students Association of Flinders University SAFU from ..., Flinders One, launched Libertine Magazine in 2008. It is published quarterly at the beginning ... more details
Stuart Flinders born 1960, Bolton is a journalist, reporter and occasional presenter for BBC North West Tonight . Flinders grew up in Bolton and is a supporter of Bolton Wanderers Football Club. ref http www.bbc.co.uk england northwesttonight profiles stuart flinders.shtml ref In 2008 he spent six months working for the BBC News channel and presented some weekend bulletins on BBC 1 during that period. He also occasionally presents BBC Radio 4 program You and Yours. Prior to working for the BBC he spent a short period working for printed media in Australia . ref http www.bbc.co.uk northwesttonight content articles 2006 12 30 stuart flinders feature.shtml ref references Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Flinders, Stuart ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH 1960 PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Flinders, Stuart Category BBC newsreaders and journalists Category Living people Category 1960 births UK journalist stub ... more details
Geobox Range Heading name Flinders native name other name category Names etymology Image image Flinders Ranges near Rawnsley s Bluff.JPG image caption The Flinders Ranges at the southern end of Wilpena ... map map caption map background map location map locator Website website Footnotes footnotes Flinders ... peak, St Mary Peak 1170m , and adjoining the Flinders Ranges National Park . The northern ranges ... National Park . Several small areas in the Flinders Ranges are protected as National Parks. These include the Flinders Ranges National Park near Wilpena Pound and the Mount Remarkable National ... NASA Flinders Ranges.JPG thumb Flinders Ranges from space The Flinders Ranges are largely composed ... ranges today. Most of the high ground and ridgetops in the Flinders are sequences of quartzite s that outcrop ... high parts of the Flinders, including the high plateau of the Gammon Ranges and the Heysen Range. Cuesta forms are also very common in the Flinders. The Ranges are particularly renowned for the Ediacara ... Painter Flora and fauna Image Flinders ranges pastoral land.JPG thumb Arid land in the Flinders Ranges The flora of the Flinders Ranges is largely made up of species adapted to a semi arid environment ... waterholes for stock, the numbers of red kangaroo s, western grey kangaroo s and wallaroo euro s in the Flinders ... the Flinders Ranges were the Adnyamathanha people meaning hill people or rock people ref name discover ... that the Adnyamathana people have lived in the Flinders Ranges for tens of thousands of years. The first European explorers to the region were an exploration party from Matthew Flinders seagoing visit .... ref cite book title The Flinders Ranges, A Portrait isbn 0 949773 37 9 year 1986 publisher Little ... R, Cook J pages 12 19 ref Image Flinders Ranges South Australia wide.jpg thumb The Flinders Ranges ... is credited as being the first European to find a route through the Flinders Ranges via Pichi Richi ... s Line had met with unusual success, with good rainfall and crops in the Flinders Ranges ... more details
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