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 Exp ...

, 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 in Dunmore, New South Wales, Dunmore in the City of Shellharbour, New South Wales, Australia, on the South Coast railway line, New South Wales, Illawarra railway line. The stat ...

, 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) The electoral district of Flinders was an Queensland Legislative Assembly electoral districts, electoral district of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland, Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland. It was first created in 188 ...

, 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. The ...

* Flinders Island (Queensland), 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, 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, South Australia, Ceduna and Port Lincoln, a distance of Flinders Highway – along with Lincoln Highway, South Australia, Lincoln Highway – presents an alternative but somewhat lo ...

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 ...

, 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. Geography ...

, an inner-western suburb of Adelaide * Flinders Ranges (disambiguation), 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. 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 Cen ...

Flinders University Flinders University, established as The Flinders University of South Australia is a public university, public research university based in Adelaide, South Australia, with a footprint extending across a number of locations in South Australia and ...

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, wi ...

, 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. Today Flinders Island is part of the state of Tasmania, Australia. It is from Cape Portland, Tasmania, Cape Portl ...

, in the Furneaux Group, in Bass Strait

Victoria

Division of Flinders The Division of Flinders is an Divisions of the Australian House of Representatives, Australian Electoral Division in Victoria (Australia), Victoria. The division is one of the List of Australian electorates contested at every election, origin ...

, federal House of Representatives electoral division in Victoria *

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

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

HMAS Cerberus (naval base) HMAS ''Cerberus'' is a Royal Australian Navy (RAN) naval base, base that serves as the primary training establishment for RAN personnel. The base is located adjacent to Crib Point, Victoria, Crib Point on the Mornington Peninsula, south of t ...

Flinders Street railway station Flinders Street railway station is a major railway station located on the corner of Flinders Street, Melbourne, Flinders and Swanston Street, Swanston streets in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. It is the busiest railway station in Victoria, se ...

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 in length and one and a half chains () in width. The stree ...

Flinders Street Viaduct The Flinders Street Viaduct is a railway bridge in Melbourne, Australia. Made up of six tracks built at different times, it links Flinders Street station to Southern Cross station, forming the main connection between the eastern and western p ...

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 o ...

, 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 play ...

formerly known as Flinders Park, home of the Australian Open Tennis Championships * Shire of Flinders (Victoria)

Western Australia

Flinders Bay Flinders Bay is a bay in western Australia, immediately south of the townsite of Augusta, Western Australia, Augusta, and close to the mouth of the Blackwood River. The bay lies to the north east of Cape Leeuwin which is the most south-westerly ...

Canada

* Cape Flinders, in the northern Canadian territory of Nunavut

People

Flinders Petrie Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie ( – ), commonly known as simply Sir Flinders Petrie, was an English people, English Egyptology, Egyptologist and a pioneer of systematic methodology in archaeology and the preservation of artefacts. ...

(1853–1942), English Egyptologist * Matthew Flinders (academic) (born 1972), British academic and political scientist *

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

(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 (born 1986), English football goalkeeper

Other

* Flinders (ship), several ships of this name, including: ** HMAS Flinders (GS 312), a survey ship in service 1973-1998 ** Flinders (schooner), a South Australian Government vessel 1865–1873 *'' The Flinders News'', a South Australian newspaper published in Port Pirie * Flinders Ranges mogurnda, a gudgeon (fish) * 10203 Flinders, an asteroid