Flinders may refer to:

Places

Antarctica

Flinders Peak Flinders Peak () is a conspicuous triangular peak, high, on the west end of the Bristly Peaks. The peak overlooks Forster Ice Piedmont near the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula. It was photographed from the air by the British Graham Land ...

, near the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula

Australia

New South Wales

* Flinders County, New South Wales *

Shellharbour Junction railway station Shellharbour Junction railway station is a railway station located at Dunmore, New South Wales, Australia, on the Illawarra railway line. The station is served by NSW TrainLink South Coast Line trains traveling south to Kiama and north to Wo ...

, Shellharbour *

Flinders, New South Wales Flinders is a southern suburb of Shellharbour, located in the Illawarra region of New South Wales, Australia. Flinders is located approximately 111 kilometres south-southwest of New South Wales' capital city of Sydney. Flinders is close to a num ...

, a suburb of Shellharbour

Queensland

* Electoral district of Flinders (Queensland), former state electoral district *

Flinders Highway, Queensland The Flinders Highway is a highway that crosses Queensland east to west, from Townsville on the Pacific coast to Cloncurry. The road continues as the Barkly Highway from Cloncurry to the Northern Territory border at Camooweal and beyond. Th ...

Flinders Island (Queensland) Flinders Island is the name given to an island that forms part of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park at the tip of Cape Melville, Queensland in Bathurst Bay. The original indigenous name was ''Wurriima.'' It is north of Denham Island in the ...

, part of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park *

Flinders Reef Flinders Reef is a small isolated reef near Moreton Island, north-east of Cape Moreton in South East Queensland, Australia. It has the highest number of coral species of any subtropical reef system along Australia's east coast and is the neares ...

Flinders River The Flinders River is the longest river in Queensland, Australia, at approximately . It was named in honour of the explorer Matthew Flinders. The catchment is sparsely populated and mostly undeveloped. The Flinders rises on the western slopes o ...

* Flinders View, Queensland, a suburb of Ipswich *

Shire of Flinders (Queensland) The Shire of Flinders is a local government area in north-western Queensland, Australia. It covers an area of , and has existed as a local government entity since 1882. The Shire, named for the Flinders River, is predominantly a grazing area w ...

, a Local Government Area located in north western Queensland

South Australia

County of Flinders The County of Flinders is one of the 49 cadastral counties of South Australia. The county covers the southern part of the Eyre Peninsula “bounded on the north by a line connecting Point Drummond with Cape Burr, and on all other sides by the ...

, a cadastral unit *

Electoral district of Flinders Flinders is a single-member electoral district for the South Australian House of Assembly. It is named after explorer Matthew Flinders, who was responsible for charting most of the state's coastline. It is a 58,901 km² coastal rural elector ...

, a state electoral district * Flinders, South Australia, former name of the town of Streaky Bay. *

Flinders Highway, South Australia Flinders Highway connects the South Australian towns of Ceduna and Port Lincoln, a distance of Flinders Highway - along with Lincoln Highway - presents an alternative but somewhat longer coastal route between Ceduna and Port Augusta, compared ...

Flinders Island (South Australia) Flinders Island is an island in the Investigator Group off the coast of South Australia approximately west of mainland town Elliston. It was named by Matthew Flinders after his younger brother Samuel Flinders, the second lieutenant on in ...

, in the Investigator Group *

Flinders Medical Centre Flinders Medical Centre (FMC) is a major public tertiary hospital and teaching school, co-located with Flinders University and the 130 bed Flinders Private Hospital located at Bedford Park, South Australia. It opened in 1976. It serves as the t ...

, the hospital associated with the Flinders University *

Flinders Park, South Australia Flinders Park is a western suburb of Adelaide, South Australia. It is located in the City of Charles Sturt. History The suburb is named after explorer Matthew Flinders, with many of its streets bearing the names of famous explorers. Geograph ...

, an inner-western suburb of Adelaide *

Flinders Ranges (disambiguation) The Flinders Ranges are a mountain range in the state of South Australia. Flinders Ranges may refer to one of these places in the state: *Flinders Ranges, South Australia, a locality *Flinders Ranges Council, a local government area *Flinders Rang ...

, articles associated with the mountain range *

Flinders Street, Adelaide Flinders Street is a main street in the city centre of Adelaide, South Australia. It runs from the northern end of Victoria Square to East Terrace, Adelaide. It is one of the intermediate-width streets of the Adelaide grid, at wide.

Flinders railway station Flinders railway station is the terminus of the Flinders line in the southern Adelaide suburb of Bedford Park. It serves the adjacent Flinders Medical Centre precinct and Flinders University. History A rail extension to Flinders Medical C ...

* Flinders University

Tasmania

Flinders Council Flinders Council is a local government body in Tasmania, encompassing the Furneaux Group and nearby islands of Bass Strait, in the north-east of the state. Flinders is classified as a rural local government area and has a population of 987, w ...

, a local government area *

Flinders Island Flinders Island, the largest island in the Furneaux Group, is a island in the Bass Strait, northeast of the island of Tasmania. Flinders Island was the place where the last remnants of aboriginal Tasmanian population were exiled by the colo ...

, in the Furneaux Group, in Bass Strait

Victoria

Division of Flinders The Division of Flinders is an Australian Electoral Division in Victoria. The division is one of the original 65 divisions contested at the first federal election. It is named for Matthew Flinders, the first man to circumnavigate Australia, ...

, federal House of Representatives electoral division in Victoria *

Flinders Lane, Melbourne Flinders Lane is a minor street and thoroughfare in the central business district of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. The laneway runs east–west from Spring Street to Spencer Street in-between Flinders and Collins Streets. Originally laid o ...

* Flinders Naval Base and Flinders Naval Depot, former names of

HMAS Cerberus (naval base) HMAS ''Cerberus'' is a Royal Australian Navy (RAN) base that serves as the primary training establishment for RAN personnel. The base is located adjacent to Crib Point on the Mornington Peninsula, south of the Melbourne City Centre, Victor ...

Flinders Street railway station Flinders Street railway station is a train station located on the corner of Flinders Street, Melbourne, Flinders and Swanston Street, Swanston streets in the Melbourne city centre, central business district (CBD) of Melbourne, Victoria (Austral ...

Flinders Street, Melbourne Flinders Street is a street in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Running roughly parallel to the Yarra River, Flinders Street forms the southern edge of the Hoddle Grid. It is exactly 1 mi (1.609 km) in length and one and a half chains ( ...

Flinders Street Viaduct The Flinders Street Viaduct is a railway bridge in Melbourne, Australia. Made up of six tracks of varying ages, it links Flinders Street station to Southern Cross station and forms the main link between the eastern and western parts of the Vict ...

Flinders, Victoria Flinders is a seaside town on the Mornington Peninsula in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, south of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the Shire of Mornington Peninsula local government area. Flinders recorded a population of ...

, a historic town south of Melbourne on the Mornington Peninsula * Flinders Wharf, Melbourne *

Melbourne Park Melbourne Park is a sports venue in the Melbourne Sports and Entertainment Precinct in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Since 1988 Australia's bicentenary, Melbourne Park has been home of the Australian Open Grand Slam tennis tournament played ...

formerly known as Flinders Park, home of the Australian Open Tennis Championships *

Shire of Flinders (Victoria) The Shire of Flinders was a local government area encompassing the extremity of the Mornington Peninsula, about south of Melbourne, the state capital of Victoria, Australia. The shire covered an area of , and existed from 1874 until 1994. Hi ...

Western Australia

Flinders Bay Flinders Bay is a bay and locality that is immediately south of the townsite of Augusta, and close to the mouth of the Blackwood River. The locality and bay lies to the north east of Cape Leeuwin which is the most south-westerly mainland poin ...

Canada

* Cape Flinders, in the northern Canadian territory of Nunavut

People

Flinders Petrie Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie ( – ), commonly known as simply Flinders Petrie, was a British Egyptologist and a pioneer of systematic methodology in archaeology and the preservation of artefacts. He held the first chair of Egyp ...

(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 Scott Liam Flinders (born 12 June 1986) is an English professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for club Mansfield Town. Flinders has played for Barnsley, Crystal Palace, Gillingham, Brighton & Hove Albion, Yeovil Town, Blackpool, ...

(born 1986), English football goalkeeper

Other

Flinders (ship) Several vessels have been named ''Flinders'' after British explorer Matthew Flinders (1774–1814), including: * ''Flinders (schooner), Flinders'' was a schooner owned by the South Australian Colonial Government between 1865 and 1873. * was a pass ...

, several ships of this name, including: **

HMAS Flinders (GS 312) HMAS ''Flinders'' (GS 312/A 312), named for Matthew Flinders (1774–1814), was a hydrographic survey ship of the Royal Australian Navy (RAN). Built by HMA Naval Dockyard at Williamstown, Victoria, ''Flinders'' was commissioned into the RAN i ...

, a survey ship in service 1973-1998 **

Flinders (schooner) HM Flinders was a sailing ship purchased in Sydney in 1865 by the South Australian Colonial Government and assigned to the Harbors Board, and completely refitted She was used for *survey work *taking up heavy moorings such as those at Port MacDonn ...

, a South Australian Government vessel 1865–1873 *''

The Flinders News ''The Flinders News'' is a weekly newspaper published in Port Pirie, South Australia, formed from the historic mergers of multiple Mid North, Mid-North publications and representing a combined ancestry of 12 former publications. Its earliest cons ...

'', a South Australian newspaper published in Port Pirie * Flinders Ranges mogurnda, a gudgeon (fish) * 10203 Flinders, an asteroid