Flinders

Flinders, meaning fragments or splinters, is probably of Scandinavian origin.^[1] 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

Antarctica

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

Australia

New South Wales

• Flinders County, New South Wales
• Flinders railway station, Shellharbour
• Flinders, New South Wales, a suburb of Shellharbour

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

• Electoral district of Flinders, state House of Assembly electoral district in South Australia
• Flinders Highway, South Australia
• Flinders Island (South Australia), in the Investigator Group
• Flinders Medical Centre, the hospital associated with the Flinders University of South Australia
• Flinders Park, South Australia, an inner-western suburb of Adelaide
• Flinders Ranges, a mountain range
• Flinders Ranges National Park, a protected area
• Flinders Ranges, South Australia, a locality
• Flinders Street, Adelaide
• Flinders University, formally, the Flinders University of South Australia
• Flinders University Hall, on-campus students' residence

Victoria

• Division of Flinders, federal House of Representatives electoral division in Victoria
• Flinders Lane, Melbourne
• Flinders Park, now known as Melbourne Park, home of the Australian Open Tennis Championships
• Flinders Street Station
• Flinders Street, Melbourne
• Flinders Street Viaduct
• Flinders, Victoria, a historic town south of Melbourne on the Mornington Peninsula
• Flinders Wharf, Melbourne
• Shire of Flinders (Victoria)

Tasmania

• Flinders Council
• Flinders Island (Tasmania), in the Furneaux Group, in Bass Strait

Western Australia

• Flinders Bay

Canada

• Cape Flinders, in the northern Canadian territory of Nunavut

Given name

• Flinders Petrie, Professor Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie FRS (1853–1942), English Egyptologist

Surname

• Matthew Flinders (academic)
• Matthew Flinders, late-18th & early-19th century explorer
• Mesh Flinders (born 1979), American screenwriter
• Scott Flinders (born 1986), English football goalkeeper

Other

• HMAS Flinders
• Flinders Ranges mogurnda, a gudgeon (fish)
• 10203 Flinders, an asteroid

See also

• All pages beginning with "Flinders"
• Flinders Island (disambiguation)

References