For the British academic MatthewFlinders academic Refimprove date March 2009 Infobox person name Matthew ... Ships Officer spouse Ann Chappelle Captain Royal Navy Captain MatthewFlinders Royal Navy RN 16 March ... ref . Early life Born in Donington, Lincolnshire , England , the son of MatthewFlinders, a surgeon ... Chappelle ref see Ann and Matthew s Marriage Certificate ref 1772 1852 . Flinders hoped to bring her ... William MatthewFlinders Petrie . Exploration of the Australian coastline Image Flinders map from project gutenberg.jpg thumb 300px MatthewFlinders voyages aboard the HMS Investigator 1798 Investigator ... cairn to mark a historical location. The MatthewFlinders Cairn, which was later enlarged, is located ... July 1814, the day after the book was published, MatthewFlinders died, aged 40. On 12 April 1812 he ... on behalf of her young son, named William MatthewFlinders Petrie , who would go on to become ... of Flinders , and the MatthewFlinders Girls Secondary College in Geelong, Victoria Geelong ... a school named after him Flinders Park Primary School. Another school named in his honour is Matthew ... Wales features a monument to George Bass and MatthewFlinders, who explored the Port Hacking estuary ..., R.Br. Robert Brown in honour of MatthewFlinders. ref Floyd, A.G. , Rainforest Trees of Mainland South ... Library of South Australia, 2005. cite journal last Flinders first Matthew title Observations ... volume 96 pages 239&ndash 266 doi 10.1098 rstl.1806.0012 cite journal last Flinders first Matthew title ..., 1801 1803, Commander MatthewFlinders, R.N. last Austin first K.A. year 1964 publisher Angus ... title Flinders, Matthew 1774 1814 accessdate 2008 10 01 cite book title MatthewFlinders The life of MatthewFlinders last Estensen first Miriam year 2002 publisher Allen & Unwin location Crows Nest, NSW isbn 1865085154 cite book title Terra Australis MatthewFlinders Great Adventures in the Circumnavigation of Australia last Flinders first Matthew authorlink MatthewFlinders coauthors ... more details
MatthewFlinders born 1972 ref name sheffygraph is a British academic and political scientist . Flinders did his undergraduate degree at Loughborough University before completing his PhD in public policy and governance at the University of Sheffield . ref cite web url http www.sheffield.ac.uk politics staff matthewflinders.html title University of Sheffield Politics Department Staff accessdate 2010 03 29 ref ref name sheffygraph cite web url http www.sheffieldtelegraph.co.uk thepanel Dr Matthew Flinders.3721618.jp title Dr MatthewFlinders Sheffield Telegraph accessdate 2010 03 29 ref . He teaches on the undergraduate politics degree at the University of Sheffield and has written a number of academic books. His main area of expertise is Governance of Britain British governance . He obtained a departmental chair academic chair in 2009, and is deputy head of the department. ref name sheffygraph Flinders won the W.J.Mackenzie Prize for the best book published in 2008 by the Political Studies Association the UK professional association for the academic study of politics for his book Delegated ... publications Flinders, M.V. 2008 Delegated governance and the British state walking without order, Oxford University Press . Flinders, M. 2001 The politics of accountability in the modern state, Ashgate Publishing Ashgate . Flinders, M. V. 2000 The politics of accountability the enduring centrality ... of Sheffield . Bache, I. and Flinders, M. eds. 2004 Multi level governance, Oxford University Press . Brazier, A., Flinders, M. and McHugh, D. eds. 2005 New politics, new parliament? a review of parliamentary modernisation since 1997, Published by Hansard Society . Flinders, M.V., Harden, I. and Marquand ... dn date January 2010 . Flinders, M., Smith, M. 1999 Quangos, accountability and reform the politics of quasi government, Macmillan Publishers United States Macmillan . Notes reflist DEFAULTSORT Flinders, Matthew Category Alumni of Loughborough University Category Alumni of the University of Sheffield ... more details
Unreferenced date December 2006 orphan date November 2009 Wikify date November 2009 MatthewFlinders Cat , a 2002 novel by Bryce Courtenay , records the relationship between Billy , a homeless man who sleeps under the statue of Flinders outside the Sydney Library on a bench, and Ryan, the son of a heroin addicted prostitute. Plot summary Billy, tormented by his mishandling of his son Charlie, has cut all ties with family and friends. Forsaking his work as a high flying defence lawyer, he instead relies on Johnny Walker Scotch Whisky. A young boy named Ryan arrives one morning, and the two quickly bond over the story of Flinder s Cat Trim. The book takes a darker turn when Billy forsakes Ryan, fearing retribution from the boy s mother after his barmaid Marion and mate Con suggest Paedophilia. Billy flees to Surfers Paradise but after a letter from the boy s principal, he enters a Salvation Army rehabilitation program and returns to find the boy. Billy gets to Ryan too late the boy has been raped by a German sex tourist named Karl through a kiddy sex ring run by The Queenie. The boy tells this to Billy who then uses his past legal connections to organise an all female crime squad who arrest the perpetrators, namely the barmaid Marion who is actually The Queenie. Category 2002 novels Category Novels by Bryce Courtenay 2000s novel stub ... more details
performance is put on at the Flinders Stage. The Year 6 formerly Year 7 musical is performed every year at the Flinders Stage. The school has ten musical groups three string orchestra, three chorales ... . Colour Jade. Mascot Turtle Campus Image Flinders Beast.JPG thumb One Interpretation of the Flinder ... more details
Infobox school name MatthewFlinders Girls Secondary College native name logo Image MatthewflindersGSC.jpg School logo motto Looking Forward established 1856 type Public Secondary gender All female affiliations affiliation president chairman principal Jenny Hawkins since 2008 asst principal vice principal Fiona Taylor & Susan Kelly campus director headmaster dean rector founder chaplain faculty teaching staff enrolment students approximately 1000 grades label grades 7 12 address city Geelong, Victoria Geelong state Victoria Australia Victoria province country Australia district Barwon South Western accreditation campus Urban colours Gibbs, Fraser, Franklin, Cuthbert, Chisholm and Melba athletics mascot emblem yearbook newspaper website http www.mfgsc.vic.edu.au One source date July 2008 MatthewFlinders Girls Secondary College is an all girls high school located in Geelong , Victoria Australia Victoria , Australia . It provides education for students years 7 12. History The school opened as Flinders National Grammar School in January 1858. The foundation stone for the school was laid on December 5, 1856 by Lieutenant Governor Major General Edward McArthur . The school was to be named the Geelong National Grammar School, but the Governor said that should be named after Captain MatthewFlinders , the first European explorer to visit the You Yangs . When the school opened in January 1858, 116 boys were enrolled, but there was no room for girls. Falling enrolments forced the school ... , but MatthewFlinders Girls School was later decided upon. In 1966 the name was altered to MatthewFlinders Girls High School. Today File MFGSC Geelong.jpg thumb Main building of the school In 2008, principal Helen Fraser left the school. In July 2006, Year 8 and 9 MatthewFlinders Girls Secondary ... College until 1991. References reflist External links http www.mfgsc.vic.edu.au MatthewFlinders ... student numbers. When the extensions were opened in April 1880, it was then known as Flinders ... more details
Shire of Flinders Victoria Given name Flinders Petrie , Professor Sir William MatthewFlinders Petrie FRS 1853 1942 , English Egyptologist Surname MatthewFlinders , late 18th & early 19th century ...There are many places with the word Flinders in their name. Most of these are in south east Australia and are named for explorer MatthewFlinders . Flinders may refer to Places Cape Flinders , in the northern Canadian territory of Nunavut Division of Flinders , federal House of Representatives electoral division in Victoria Electoral district of Flinders , state House of Assembly electoral district in South Australia Electoral district of Flinders Queensland , former state electoral district in Queensland Flinders Bay , Western Australia Flinders Council , Tasmania Flinders County , New South Wales Flinders Highway, Queensland Flinders Highway, South Australia Flinders Island Queensland , part of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Flinders Island South Australia , in the Investigator Group Flinders Island Tasmania , in the Furneaux Group, in Bass Strait Flinders Lane, Melbourne Flinders Medical Centre , the hospital associated with the Flinders University of South Australia Flinders, New South Wales redlink , a suburb of Shellharbour, New South Wales Flinders Park, now known as Melbourne Park , home of the Australian Open Tennis Championships Flinders Park, South Australia , an inner western suburb of Adelaide Flinders Peak , near the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula, Antarctica Flinders railway station , Shellharbour, New South Wales Flinders Ranges , South Australia Flinders Ranges National Park , South Australia Flinders Reef , Queensland Flinders River , Queensland Flinders Street, Adelaide Flinders Street Station , Melbourne Flinders Street, Melbourne Flinders Street Viaduct , Melbourne Flinders University , formally, the Flinders University of South Australia Flinders University Hall , on campus students residence Flinders, Victoria , a historic town south of Melbourne ... more details
Flinders Street , named after explorer MatthewFlinders , may refer to Flinders Street, Adelaide Flinders Street, Melbourne Flinders Street Station , a railway station in Melbourne Flinders Street Viaduct , a railway bridge in Melbourne See also Flinders disambiguation dab ... more details
Shire of Flinders can relate to one of two Local Government Areas in Australia , each named after Captain MatthewFlinders The current Shire of Flinders Queensland The former Shire of Flinders Victoria geodis ... more details
File StateLibQld 1 164135 Flooding of the Flinders River at Hughenden, January 1917.jpg thumb Flooding of the Flinders River at Hughenden, January 1917 The Flinders River is the longest river in Queensland , Australia at about convert 1004 km mi . The river rises in the Great Dividing Range northeast of Hughenden, Queensland Hughenden and flows past Hughenden, Richmond, Queensland Richmond and Julia Creek, Queensland Julia Creek then northwest to the Gulf of Carpentaria near Karumba, Queensland and 2nd longest in Australia. The principal tributaries are the Cloncurry River and the Corella River . The Flinders was named after the explorer MatthewFlinders . MatthewFlinders was on a exploration when he came across a river. He named it after himself. commons category coord 17 36 S 140 36 E display title region AU type river source GNS enwiki Category Rivers of Queensland Category North West Queensland Queensland geo stub cs Flinders eka da Flinders de Flinders River fr Flinders fleuve ka lt Flindersas ja pl Flinders ru uk ... more details
of Nicholas Baudin and MatthewFlinders , Kent Town, South Australia,Wakefield Press,2004. ISBN ...Flinders Bay is a bay and locality that is immediately south of the townsite of Augusta, Western Australia , and close to the mouth of the Blackwood River and lies to the north east of Cape Leeuwin . Bay Flinders Bay 34 21 00 S. 115 20 00 E On MatthewFlinders Terra Australis Sheet 1 1801 1803 the area was originally known as Dangerous Bight . The bay runs from Point Matthew 1.5km East North East of Cape Leeuwin to Ledge Point some 8 km east. It was named by either James Stirling Australian governor James Stirling or Septimus Roe in 1829 or 1830. MatthewFlinders was first in the Bay on the 7th December 1801. Image Flinders plaque.jpg thumb left Plaque at Point Matthew lookout on road to Cape Leeuwin Railway terminus and Jetty The name of the locality of Flinders Bay is tied to the small settlement that had been a whaling and fishing location, as well as the terminus of the Busselton to Flinders Bay Branch Railway railway line 1920s closed 1957 , and the earlier Flinders Bay jetty 1890s . The settlement was in the earlier days considered to be separate from Augusta but now is more or less the southern portion of the larger community. The need for safe, and efficient transfer of whale watchers, and a safe mooring location in the Bay for fishermen has seen a proposal for a marina in 2004 which had included plans for the marina close to the old settlement of Flinders Bay. The 2005 revised proposal has moved to a bay further around towards Cape Leeuwin. Image Flinders bay whaling.jpg thumb View of the Flinders Bay whaling and settlement from the north Whaling The landing area adjacent to the old railway station yard, was original known as The Whaling . It was the area where boats ... The St Alouarn Islands stretch out south of Point Matthew on the road to Cape Leeuwin , and are effective ... Category Bays of Western Australia WesternAustralia geo stub it Flinders Bay ... more details
A Flinders bar is a vertical soft iron bar placed in a tube on the fore side of a compass binnacle . The Flinders bar is used to counteract the vertical magnetism inherent within a ship and is usually calibrated as part of the process known as swinging the compass , where deviations caused by this inherent magnetism are negated by the use of horizontal or quadrantal correctors. ref cite book title American Practical Navigator http www.nga.mil portal site maritime ?epi menuItemID c56aa099e2bff9525b2a7fbd3227a759&epi menuID 35ad5b8aabcefa1a0fc133443927a759&epi baseMenuID e106a3b5e50edce1fec24fd73927a759 first Nathaniel last Bowditch authorlink Nathaniel Bowditch year 2002 edition bicentennial publisher National Geospatial Intelligence Agency ref Where the deviation from a Boxing the compass compass point cannot be counteracted through the use of Flinders bar, William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin Kelvin s balls, Heeling error magnets and Horizontal magnets, a deviation card , or graph, is produced. This card, or graph, lists the deviation for various compass courses and is referred to by the navigator when compass courses need to be corrected. It is named after MatthewFlinders 1774 1814 who wrote a paper on ships magnetism for the British Navy . ref name flinders Miriam Estensen The life of MatthewFlinders p 460 ref ref cite journal last Flinders first Matthew authorlink MatthewFlinders title Concerning the Differences in the Magnetic Needle, on Board the Investigator, Arising from an Alteration in the Direction of the Ship s Head journal Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society year 1805 volume 95 pages 186&ndash 197 doi 10.1098 rstl.1805.0012 ref References Reflist External links http www.rgsq.org.au flse3 2B.htm Flinders education unit from Royal Geographical Society of Queensland Category Sailing ship elements Category Navigational equipment ... more details
Unreferenced stub auto yes date December 2009 Infobox Ship Begin Infobox Ship Image Ship image Ship caption Infobox Ship Career Ship country Australia RAN Ship flag Image Naval Ensign of Australia.svg 60px RAN ensign Ship namesake Matthew Flinders Ship builder HMA Naval Dockyard, Williamstown Ship laid down 11 June 1971 Ship launched 29 July 1972 Ship commissioned 27 April 1973 Ship decommissioned 1998 Ship motto Ship nickname Ship honours Ship fate Ship notes Ship badge Infobox Ship Characteristics Ship type Oceanographic survey ship Ship displacement Ship length Ship beam Ship draught Ship propulsion Ship speed Ship complement Ship sensors Ship EW Ship armament Ship notes HMAS Flinders A 312 , named for Matthew Flinders 1774 1814 , was an oceanographic survey ship of the Royal Australian Navy RAN . Flinders was laid down by HMA Naval Dockyard at Williamstown, Victoria on 11 June 1971. She was launched on 29 July 1972 and commissioned into the RAN on 27 April 1973. Flinders was decommissioned in 1998. DEFAULTSORT Flinders A 312 , Hmas Category Royal Australian Navy survey ships Category 1972 ships Australia mil ship stub ... more details
Infobox Planet minorplanet yes width 25em bgcolour FFFFC0 apsis name Flinders symbol image caption discovery yes discovery ref discoverer F. B. Zoltowski discovery site Woomera, South Australia Woomera discovered August 01, 1997 designations yes mp name 10203 alt names 1997 PQ named after MatthewFlinders mp category orbit ref epoch May 14, 2008 aphelion 2.3802345 perihelion 2.0248577 semimajor eccentricity 0.0806741 period 1193.9494621 avg speed inclination 4.69384 asc node 125.16069 mean anomaly 344.85185 arg peri 306.66262 satellites physical characteristics yes dimensions mass density surface grav escape velocity sidereal day axial tilt pole ecliptic lat pole ecliptic lon albedo temperatures temp name1 mean temp 1 max temp 1 temp name2 max temp 2 spectral type abs magnitude 15.0 10203 Flinders 1997 PQ is a Asteroid belt main belt asteroid discovered on August 1, 1997 by F. B. Zoltowski at Woomera, South Australia Woomera . References references External links http ssd.jpl.nasa.gov sbdb.cgi?sstr 10203 Flinders JPL Small Body Database Browser on 10203 Flinders MinorPlanets Navigator 10202 1997 PE 10204 Turing MinorPlanets Footer DEFAULTSORT Flinders Category Main Belt asteroids Category Asteroids named for people Category Astronomical objects discovered in 1997 beltasteroid stub fa it 10203 Flinders hu 10203 Flinders pl 10203 Flinders pt 10203 Flinders ... more details
There are two Australian highway s called the Flinders Highway . Flinders Highway, South Australia Flinders Highway, Queensland disambig de Flinders Highway ... more details
Matt Flinders , born Sylvan Louis Bonett in Alexandria , Egypt , is a singer who rose to prominence in the late 1960s in Australia . Of French, English and Italian background, Flinders migrated to Australia with his family in 1951. Following National Service training with the Royal Australian Air Force RAAF in the 1950s, he toured Australia, Japan and England as a double bass player and singer, later being appointed as a bandleader at the Chevron Hotel in Melbourne . ref name flinders cite web url http www.mattflinders.ycn.com.au title Matt Flinders accessdate 2007 12 16 last first coauthors date work publisher accessed through Internet Archive archiveurl http web.archive.org web 20051225015208 http www.mattflinders.ycn.com.au archivedate 2005 12 25 ref Born to a music loving family, Flinders brothers also enjoyed the limelight of musical careers the late Roland Bonet was a popular performer and dance band leader in Melbourne until his death in 2002 Arnold, the eldest, performed many roles as an operatic bass baritone for the National Theatre Opera and the ABC and was presented with an award ..., Flinders was discovered by Ron Tudor of Astor Records who suggested the name change to Matt Flinders after the explorer MatthewFlinders which was deemed to be easier to pronounce and remember than his birth name. ref name flindersFlinders had two top ten singles in Australia Picking up Pebbles 1969 ... Matt Flinders Picking up Pebbles accessdate 2007 12 16 last first coauthors date work publisher ... musician. Flinders appeared on his own television show , Matt Flinders and Friends 1972 1973 , as well as his own radio show, both for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation ABC . ref name flinders cite web url http www.mattflinders.ycn.com.au title Matt Flinders Picking up Pebbles accessdate 2007 ... web 20051225015208 http www.mattflinders.ycn.com.au archivedate 2005 12 25 ref Flinders ... wife, Coralie. References references DEFAULTSORT Flinders, Matt Category Australian television personalities ... more details
Infobox Australian Place type town name Flinders state vic image caption lga Shire of Mornington Peninsula postcode 3929 pop 787 2006 ref name abs Census 2006 AUS id SSC25603 name Flinders State Suburb accessdate 2007 10 01 quick on ref est 1854 stategov Electoral district of Nepean Nepean fedgov Division of FlindersFlinders dist1 86 location1 Melbourne dist2 19 location2 Rosebud, Victoria Rosebud near nw Boneo, Victoria Boneo near n Main Ridge, Victoria Main Ridge near ne Red Hill, Victoria Red Hill near w Boneo, Victoria Boneo near e Shoreham, Victoria Shoreham near sw near s near se Flinders is a historic town south of Melbourne , Victoria Australia Victoria , Australia , located on the Mornington Peninsula at the point where Western Port meets Bass Strait . Its Local Government Area is the Shire of Mornington Peninsula . At the 2006 Census in Australia census , Flinders had a population of 787. History The town was named by George Bass after his friend, the explorer and British naval officer Captain MatthewFlinders . Settlement commenced in 1854 and many pioneers and settlers are buried at the Flinders cemetery. Flinders Post Office opened on 7 March 1863 as the population grew. ref name a Citation last Premier Postal History title Post Office List url https www.premierpostal.com cgi bin wsProd.sh Viewpocdwrapper.p?SortBy VIC&country accessdate 2008 04 11 ref Present day The town has a picturesque golf course built on a cliff top on Bass Street operated by the Flinders Golf Club. ref name golf Citation author Golf Select title Flinders url http www.golfselect.com.au armchair ... www.mpbonline.com.au Content Pub ContentDetail.asp?lngContentID 248 title Find Out More About Flinders ... ed., 2001 ref Flinders was the original home of http www.flindersbread.com.au Flinders Bread , available ... a weapons training facility and gunnery on West Head. It is restricted to the public. Flinders is served ... route view 979 782 Frankston Flinders , effective 19 April 2004. Accessed 27 November 2006. ref ... more details
image Image FlindersUniversity.png 150px Image Flinders from hill.jpg right 300px thumb View of Flinders University main campus, with central plaza and lakeside area visible. Flinders University , The Flinders University of South Australia , is a public university in Adelaide , South Australia . Founded in 1966, it was named in honour of navigator MatthewFlinders , who explored and surveyed ... needed date September 2008 The university takes its name from British navigator MatthewFlinders ...Infobox University name The Flinders University of South Australia motto Inspiring Achievement established ... TopAsia EN .htm Bot retrieved archive archivedate 2008 08 22 ref History Flinders University was opened ... of Flinders ship Investigator and an extract from his book A Voyage to Terra Australis . A significant early initiative was the decision to build the Flinders Medical Centre on land adjacent ..., Flinders merged with the adjacent Sturt Campus of the former South Australian College of Advanced ... region. Organisation Image Flinders humanities courtyard.jpg 300px right thumb View of the courtyard of the Humanities building of the Flinders University. Flinders University offers more than 160 undergraduate ... Health Sciences Flinders University publisher Flinders.edu.au date 2010 09 22 accessdate 2010 09 ... & Engineering Home Page Flinders University publisher Scieng.flinders.edu.au date 2010 09 22 accessdate ... socsci title Social and Behavioural Sciences Flinders University publisher Flinders.edu.au date 2010 09 22 accessdate 2010 09 26 ref Affiliates Australian Science and Mathematics School Flinders ... 2008 Housing main Flinders University Hall Flinders is the only South Australian university with on campus ... Deirdre Jordan Village self catered . For off campus accommodation, Flinders Housing run a free .... Media The Empire Times was published by the Students Association of Flinders University SAFU from ..., Flinders One, launched Libertine Magazine in 2008. It is published quarterly at the beginning ... more details
Flinders Peak coor dm 69 21 S 66 40 W is a conspicuous triangular peak 960 m on the west end of Bristly Peaks . The peak overlooks Forster Ice Piedmont near the west coast of Antarctic Peninsula . Photographed from the air by British Graham Land Expedition BGLE February 1937 and Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition RARE December 1947 . Surveyed from the ground by Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey FIDS in December 1958. Named by United Kingdom Antarctic Place Names Committee UK APC after MatthewFlinders 1774 1814 , English navigator who discovered the cause of deviation in magnetic compasses, and pointed the way to a solution, 1805 14. usgs gazetteer Category Mountains of Antarctica WAntarctica geo stub ... more details
Infobox Scientist name Flinders Petrie box width image WMFPetrie.jpg image width 222px caption Professor Sir William MatthewFlinders Petrie birth date birth date 3 June 1853 3 June 1853 birth place Charlton ... influences influenced prizes religion footnotes signature Professor Sir William MatthewFlinders Petrie Fellow of the Royal Society FRS 3 June 1853 &ndash 28 July 1942 , known as Flinders Petrie , was an England ... , England , the son of William Petrie 1821 1908 and Anne n e Flinders 1812 1892 . Anne was the daughter of Captain MatthewFlinders , surveyor of the Australia n coastline. He was raised in a devout ... all that was in it and how it lay. ref William MatthewFlinders Petrie, Seventy Years in Archaeology ... and later William MatthewFlinders Petrie UCL appointed him as Professor at her Egyptology chair ... Uphill, A Bibliography of Sir William MatthewFlinders Petrie 1853 1942 , Journal of Near Eastern Studies ... Petrie , Aris & Philips, 2004. ISBN 0 85668 748 0 William MatthewFlinders Petrie, Seventy Years in Archaeology ... Flinders Petrie The Father of Egyptian Archaeology, 1853 1942 gutenberg author id William MatthewFlinders Petrie name William MatthewFlinders Petrie http www.ancient egypt.co.uk manchester pages ... Petrie da Flinders Petrie de Flinders Petrie es William MatthewFlinders Petrie fr William MatthewFlinders Petrie ga William MatthewFlinders Petrie it Flinders Petrie he lt William Matthew ... Petrie oc William MatthewFlinders Petrie pl William Flinders Petrie pt Flinders Petrie ru ... himself concurred. ref Margaret S. Drower, Flinders Petrie A Life in Archaeology , 1995, p.221 ... excavating and surveying ancient sites in Egypt and the Levant . Flinders Petrie was encouraged from ... profiles sir william flinders petrie 1853 1942 title Sir William Flinders Petrie publisher Palestine ... conducting excavations on a temple in Petrie s area of concession at Luxor. ref Drower, Flinders Petrie ... III which had been built on a flood plain. ref Drower, Flinders Petrie, p.221 ref They were ... more details
Cape Flinders is a headland in the Northern Canada northern Canadian territory of Nunavut . It is located on the western point of the Kent Peninsula . ref cite book last McGoogan first Ken title Fatal Passage The Story of John Rae, the Arctic Hero Time Forgot publisher Basic Books date 2003 pages 139 isbn 0786711566 url http books.google.com books?id JshAgSEHfpkC&pg PA139&lpg PA139&dq 22cape flinders 22 coronation&source bl&ots 7ntlCa52HO&sig I3lOM4 w45adraAD8lyrS5bqAm0&hl en&ei cHA1S4rBJY OsgPikpm7BA&sa X&oi book result&ct result&resnum 4&ved 0CBkQ6AEwAw v onepage&q 22cape 20flinders 22 20coronation&f false ref The cape was named by Sir John Franklin in 1821 ref cite book last Murphy first David title The Arctic Fox Francis Leopold McClintock publisher Dundurn Press Ltd. date 2004 pages 25 isbn 1550025236 url http books.google.com books?id YshbpPnEfr8C&pg PA25&lpg PA25&dq 22cape flinders 22 canada&source bl&ots TIr GlSgGW&sig Qx77sxgak2vq7V7gj qThGhBZNA&hl en&ei m81S4DlAoqqsgOBwp3KBA&sa X&oi book result&ct result&resnum 8&ved 0CCAQ6AEwBzgK v onepage&q 22cape 20flinders 22 20canada&f false ref after the navigator MatthewFlinders . References Reflist coord 68.26 108.80 region CA NU scale 100000 display title name Cape Flinders Headlands of Nunavut Category Headlands of Kitikmeot Region KitikmeotNU geo stub ... more details
Cook s on Cook s second voyage. In February 1798 British navigator MatthewFlinders charted some of the southern islands, using one of the Schooner Francis open boats. Later that year Flinders returned ..., named by MatthewFlinders after his young brother Samuel Flinders midshipman on the Investigator and an Island in the Flinders Group, North of Cooktown in Queensland, was named after MatthewFlinders ...Other uses Infobox islands name Flinders Island image name Flinders island.jpg image caption Furneaux ... admin divisions 1 Municipality of Flinders Island country largest city Whitemark, Tasmania Whitemark ... ethnic groups Flinders Island is an island in Bass Strait . It is convert 20 km from Cape Portland ... in the Furneaux Group . History Flinders Island was first colonised at least 35,000 years ago, when ... the islands, Furneaux s Islands, after Tobias Furneaux. Flinders named the largest island in the group Great Island he also named a group of mountains on Flinders Island, the three patriarchs , the small island just to the East, Flinders named Babel Island from the noises made by the sea birds . Phillip Parker King, later named Flinders Island, after MatthewFlinders. ref MatthewFlinders Observations 1801 ref ref MatthewFlinders Voyage to Terra Australis 1814 ref ref The Early History of Tasmania R.W.Giblin 1928 ref There is three Islands named Flinders Island The Large Island on the East ... or Wybalenna , meaning Black Man s House on Flinders Island. These 160 survivors were deemed to be safe ... Tasmania and central New South Wales to Flinders Island s eastern shore. The Municipality of Flinders Island was instituted in 1903. ref name fof http www.focusonflinders.com.au about.htm Focus on Flinders ... of the Municipality of Flinders Island Local Government Areas of Tasmania local government area . Flinders Island is only one of the many islands included in the Municipal area. Of these islands Flinders ... Fur Seal Arctocephalus pusillus . ref http focusonflinders.com.au florafauna.htm Focus on Flinders ... more details
that the Adnyamathana people have lived in the Flinders Ranges for tens of thousands of years. The first European explorers to the region were an exploration party from MatthewFlinders seagoing visit ...Geobox Range Heading name Flinders native name other name category Names etymology Image image Flinders Ranges near Rawnsley s Bluff.JPG image caption The Flinders Ranges at the southern end of Wilpena ... map map caption map background map location map locator Website website Footnotes footnotes Flinders ... peak, St Mary Peak 1170m , and adjoining the Flinders Ranges National Park . The northern ranges ... National Park . Several small areas in the Flinders Ranges are protected as National Parks. These include the Flinders Ranges National Park near Wilpena Pound and the Mount Remarkable National ... NASA Flinders Ranges.JPG thumb Flinders Ranges from space The Flinders Ranges are largely composed ... ranges today. Most of the high ground and ridgetops in the Flinders are sequences of quartzite s that outcrop ... high parts of the Flinders, including the high plateau of the Gammon Ranges and the Heysen Range. Cuesta forms are also very common in the Flinders. The Ranges are particularly renowned for the Ediacara ... Painter Flora and fauna Image Flinders ranges pastoral land.JPG thumb Arid land in the Flinders Ranges The flora of the Flinders Ranges is largely made up of species adapted to a semi arid environment ... waterholes for stock, the numbers of red kangaroo s, western grey kangaroo s and wallaroo euro s in the Flinders ... the Flinders Ranges were the Adnyamathanha people meaning hill people or rock people ref name discover .... ref cite book title The Flinders Ranges, A Portrait isbn 0 949773 37 9 year 1986 publisher Little ... R, Cook J pages 12 19 ref Image Flinders Ranges South Australia wide.jpg thumb The Flinders Ranges ... is credited as being the first European to find a route through the Flinders Ranges via Pichi Richi ... s Line had met with unusual success, with good rainfall and crops in the Flinders Ranges ... more details
Infobox Australian Electorate federal yes name Flinders image Division of Flinders 2010.png imagesize 300 caption Division of Flinders green in Victoria Australia Victoria created 1900 state vic mp Greg Hunt mp party Liberal Party of Australia Liberal namesake MatthewFlinders electors area 1955 class Rural The Division of Flinders is an Divisions of the Australian House of Representatives Australian Electoral Division in Victoria Australia Victoria . The division was one of the original 75 divisions contested at the Australian federal election, 1901 first federal election . It is named for MatthewFlinders , the first man to circumnavigate Australia, and the person credited with giving Australia her name. Originally a country seat south and east of Melbourne , Flinders has been gradually cut back to the outer southern suburbs on the Mornington Peninsula , including Dromana, Victoria Dromana , Hastings, Victoria Hastings and Portsea, Victoria Portsea . It has usually been a fairly safe seat for the Liberal Party of Australia Liberal Party and its predecessors, but has occasionally been ... of Australia Nationalist Flinders by election, 1918 1918 1929 Australian politics party colours ... United Australia Party United Australia Flinders by election, 1933 1933 1940 Australian politics party ... Labor Flinders by election, 1952 1952 1954 Australian politics party colours Liberal Robert ... Peter Reith Liberal Party of Australia Liberal Flinders by election, 1982 1982 1983 Australian ... present Election results Main Electoral results for the Division of Flinders Election box begin title Australian federal election, 2010 Flinders Election box candidate AU party candidate Greg Hunt party ... References http www.aec.gov.au Elections federal elections 2007 profiles f Flinders.htm Division of Flinders ... title Category Electoral divisions of Australia Flinders Category Australian electorates contested at every election Flinders Category Mornington Peninsula fr Circonscription de Flinders zh ... more details
Infobox Australian Place type lga name Flinders Council state Tasmania image LGATasmania Flinders.png caption Flinders Council pop formatnum 897 pop footnotes 2009 ref cite web url http www.abs.gov.au ausstats abs .nsf Latestproducts 3218.0Main 20Features92008 09?opendocument&tabname Summary&prodno 3218.0&issue 2008 09&num &view title Regional Population Growth, Australia, 2008 09 author Australian Bureau of Statistics date 30 March 2010 accessdate 4 June 2010 ref area 1333 est seat Whitemark, Tasmania Whitemark mayor Terence Klug region Furneaux Group and surrounding island groups logo url http www.flinders.tas.gov.au stategov Division of Bass state Bass fedgov Division of Bass Bass near nw Bass Strait near n Bass Strait near ne Bass Strait near w Bass Strait near e Bass Strait near sw Dorset Council Dorset near s Bass Strait near se Bass Strait coordinates coord 40 0 50 S 148 03 21 E type adm2nd source GA display inline,title Flinders Council is a Local Government Areas in Australia Local Government Area of Tasmania . It covers more than 60 islands off the north eastern tip of Tasmania at the eastern end of Bass Strait . Of these 60, only three have permanent populations Clarke Island Tasmania Clarke Island , Cape Barren Island , and the largest and most populous, Flinders Island . References Reflist External links http www.flinders.tas.gov.au Flinders Council Category Local Government Areas of Tasmania Category Bass Strait Category North East Tasmania de Flinders Municipality fr Conseil de Flinders nl Flinders Council pl Flinders Council ... more details
Stuart Flinders born 1960, Bolton is a journalist, reporter and occasional presenter for BBC North West Tonight . Flinders grew up in Bolton and is a supporter of Bolton Wanderers Football Club. ref http www.bbc.co.uk england northwesttonight profiles stuart flinders.shtml ref In 2008 he spent six months working for the BBC News channel and presented some weekend bulletins on BBC 1 during that period. He also occasionally presents BBC Radio 4 program You and Yours. Prior to working for the BBC he spent a short period working for printed media in Australia . ref http www.bbc.co.uk northwesttonight content articles 2006 12 30 stuart flinders feature.shtml ref references Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Flinders, Stuart ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH 1960 PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Flinders, Stuart Category BBC newsreaders and journalists Category Living people Category 1960 births UK journalist stub ... more details
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