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
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
References
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