Flinders Island

The largest island in the Furneaux group, now called Flinders Island, was not so named by Flinders.

The Life of Captain Matthew Flinders Scott, Ernest, 1868-1939 1914

The largest island in the Furneaux group, now called Flinders Island, was not so named by Flinders.

The Life of Captain Matthew Flinders Ernest Scott 1903

The highest point on Flinders Island is 756 m in the Strzelecki Peaks.

Tasmanian temperate forests 2008

Wombats (Vombatus ursinus tasmaniensis) are widespread on Tasmania, with a separate subspecies on Flinders Island, V.u. ursinus.

Tasmanian temperate forests 2008

The sun was on the water and the mountains of Flinders Island were six miles off our port.

The Whale Warriors Peter Heller 2007

Golden has had the remarkable opportunity of writing much of this current trilogy in a place that to her feels alien indeed—Flinders Island, Tasmania.

Shadow Hunters Christie Golden 2007

The mountains of Flinders Island visible at daybreak off port.

The Whale Warriors Peter Heller 2007

The sun was on the water and the mountains of Flinders Island were six miles off our port.

The Whale Warriors Peter Heller 2007

The mountains of Flinders Island visible at daybreak off port.

The Whale Warriors Peter Heller 2007

There, instead of a few districts, the whole island is depopulated of its original inhabitants, and only thirty or forty individuals, the banished remnant of a once numerous people, are now existing as exiles at Flinders Island, to tell the tale of their expatriation.

An account of the manners and customs of the Aborigines and the state of their relations with Europeans, by Edward John Eyre 2004