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 Expe ...

, near the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula

Australia

New South Wales

Flinders County Flinders County is one of the 141 Cadastral divisions of New South Wales. It is located to the south west of the Bogan River. Flinders County was named in honour of the navigator, hydrographer, and scientist Matthew Flinders Captain (Ro ...

, New South Wales * Shellharbour Junction railway station, Shellharbour * Flinders, New South Wales, a suburb of Shellharbour

Queensland

Electoral district of Flinders (Queensland) The electoral district of Flinders was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland. It was first created in 1887, effective 1888, covering the area centred on the central Queensland towns of Cloncu ...

, former state electoral district * Flinders Highway, Queensland *

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 F ...

, part of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park * Flinders Reef *

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 ...

, 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 t ...

, 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 electo ...

, 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, compare ...

* Flinders Island (South Australia), 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 South Australia (commonly abbrevi ...

, 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. Geograp ...

, 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 R ...

, 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 University Flinders University is a public research university based in Adelaide, South Australia, with a footprint extending across 11 locations in South Australia and the Northern Territory. Founded in 1966, it was named in honour of British navigator ...

Tasmania

* Flinders Council, 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 co ...

, 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 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, Victo ...

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 Vic ...

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

Flinders Wharf Flinders Wharf (previously known as Flinders Wharf Apartments) is located in the Docklands, Victoria, Docklands area, along the northern bank of the Yarra River on the edge of the Melbourne city centre. The 300-apartment complex is home to a mul ...

, 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 in Australia, local government area encompassing the extremity of the Mornington Peninsula, about south of Melbourne, the state capital of Victoria (Australia), Victoria, Australia. The shire covered ...

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) Matthew V. Flinders (born 1972) is a British academic and political scientist. From July 2014 until April 2017 he was Chair of the Executive Committee of Trustees of the Political Studies Association. Flinders did his undergraduate degree at ...

(born 1972), British academic and political scientist *

Matthew Flinders Captain (Royal Navy), Captain Matthew Flinders (16 March 1774 – 19 July 1814) was a British navigator and cartographer who led the first littoral zone, inshore circumnavigate, circumnavigation of mainland Australia, then called New Holland ...

(1774–1814), British explorer, after whom all the geographic features listed above were directly or indirectly named. *

Mesh Flinders ''Lonelygirl15'' is an American science fiction thriller web series created by Miles Beckett, Mesh Flinders, Greg Goodfried, and Amanda Goodfried. It was independently released on YouTube from June 16, 2006 to August 1, 2008, and was also brief ...

(born 1979), American screenwriter * Scott Flinders (born 1986), English football goalkeeper

Other

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

, several ships of this name, including: ** HMAS Flinders (GS 312), 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'', a South Australian newspaper published in Port Pirie *

Flinders Ranges mogurnda ''Mogurnda clivicola'', commonly known as the Flinders Ranges mogurnda, Flinders Ranges purple-spotted gudgeon, Barcoo, or Bulloo mogurnda, is a central Australian gudgeon of the family Eleotridae. Distribution Flinders Ranges gudgeons are fo ...

, a gudgeon (fish) *

10203 Flinders 1 (one, unit, unity) is a number representing a single or the only entity. 1 is also a numerical digit and represents a single unit of counting or measurement. For example, a line segment of ''unit length'' is a line segment of length 1. ...

, an asteroid