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unusual facts about Flinders


Ivan Durrant

1970-1972: Flinders Horses and Landscapes - reflections of the period during which Durrant lived in the coastal town of Flinders, Victoria.


Balfour Downs Station

The mineral-rich grazing country includes extensive watercourse and channel country, opening onto large floodplains covered with Mitchell, Flinders, and buffel grass.

Balnarring, Victoria

Balnarring is at the crossroads of two primary main roads in the south-eastern region of the Mornington Peninsula, namely Frankston-Flinders Road and Balnarring Road (from Mornington), and as a result is home to a few motels, a post office and several shops and cafes including an IGA supermarket.

Bernard Whimpress

He has taught courses in sports, American and world history at Flinders University; and Aboriginal history and sports journalism at the University of South Australia.

Brown-headed Honeyeater

The Brown-headed Honeyeater ranges from central-southern Queensland, down through central and eastern New South Wales (though generally west of the Great Dividing Range), across Victoria and into eastern South Australia, where it is found in the Flinders Ranges and around the lower Murray River region.

Climbing galaxias

Their distribution extends to coastal streams in southeastern Australia from Adelaide and Kangaroo Island in South Australia, through coastal Victoria including Wilsons Promontory, Tasmania, Flinders and King Islands and up the New South Wales coast to around Sydney, as well as New Zealand including the Chatham, Auckland and Campbell Islands.

Disappearance of Sarah MacDiarmid

MacDiarmid, who emigrated with her family in 1987 from the Scottish Highlands to Australia, had been playing tennis after work with two friends at what was then known as Flinders Park in Batman Avenue, East Melbourne, before walking to Richmond station, where they found that they had just missed a Frankston line train.

Ediacara

The Ediacara Hills are a small outlier of the Flinders Ranges in South Australia.

Everything a Man Could Ever Need

Australian Matt Flinders covered the song on his 1972 album Matt Flinders On Television.

Flinders County

Flinders County was named in honour of the navigator, hydrographer, and scientist Matthew Flinders (1774-1814).

Flinders Lane, Melbourne

Flinders Lane has many notable multi-storey warehouses, some included on the Victorian Heritage Register; including Leicester House (1888), Murray House, Chapter House (1891) by William Butterfield, Ross House (1898) by Sulman & Power, Milton House (1901) by Sydney Smith & Ogg, Tomasetti Warehouse, Manchester House and the Majorca Building (1928) by Harry Norris.

The Lane is also home to luxury French label Chanel who have a flagship store at the "Paris end" of the city, on the corner of Flinders Lane and Russell Street.

Government of Tasmania

The largest council (by number of enrolled electors) is City of Launceston and the smallest council is Municipality of Flinders (which serves the Flinders Island and surrounding islands, and has just over 800 electors)

Graham Rowlands

He has a Masters of Arts from the University of Queensland and a PhD from Flinders University, and has worked as a journalist and editor in both the poetry and education fields.

John McDouall Stuart

From the Flinders Ranges, Stuart travelled west, passing to the south of Lake Torrens, then north along the western edge of Lake Torrens.

Kangaroo Island bushfires

The D'Estrees Bay fire in Cape Gantheaume Conservation Park was contained by 12 December 2007, while intense fires in the west, which included the protected areas of Flinders Chase National Park and Ravine des Casoars Wilderness Protection Area, were more difficult to extinguish.

Kanyaka

Kanyaka Station, an abandoned cattle station in the Flinders Ranges, South Australia

Kingia

The genus name was chosen to honour both King and his father Philip Gidley King, who was Governor of New South Wales during Brown's voyage under Flinders.

Kristian Chong

A highly sought after chamber musician, recent collaborations include Australian and international tours with the Australian String Quartet, performances with violinists Natsuko Yoshimoto, Elizabeth Layton, Ilya Konovalov, (concertmaster Israel Philharmonic), Flinders Quartet, and cellists Li-Wei Qin and Guy Johnston.

Leslie Webster

He farmed at Flinders Island from 1918 to 1928, running Red Poll and Corriedale cattle and sheep studs, and serving as chairman of the Flinders Island Butter Factory Company, as a member of the local licensing court, and as a Flinders Island Council councillor for seven years, including a stint as shire warden.

Market Street, Melbourne

South of Flinders Street, the roadway continues across the Yarra River via Queens Bridge.

Max Sterling

Maximillian Sterling, voiced by Cam Clarke (credited as "Jimmy Flinders" at the time), is one of the fictional characters in the Robotech anime television series.

Mesh Flinders

Beckett had the idea to tell a story about a videoblogger on YouTube, and Flinders had the perfect character.

National Tennis Centre

National Tennis Centre at Flinders Park, now Melbourne Park, home of the Australian Open Grand Slam tennis tournament

Neil Piller

Neil "George" Piller is a professor in the area of lymphology at the Department of Surgery, School of Medicine, Flinders University and Director of the Lymphoedema Assessment Unit, Flinders Surgical Oncology as well as member of the Flinders University microcirculatory and lymphological research group.

Petrie polygon

John Flinders Petrie (1907-1972) was the only son of Egyptologist Sir W. M. Flinders Petrie.

Platform artists group

In 1995, the City of Melbourne offered the group another underground space, Campbell Arcade, a subway located under Flinders Street and connecting Flinders Street Station to Degraves Street, Melbourne.

Shitsville Express

Francis Ventura, 22, is from Melbourne and has been volunteering for the Labor Party since he was nine years old and stood for the seat of Flinders in the 2010 Federal election.

South Australia Rugby Union

By 1971 clubs included: Army, Adelaide University, Glenelg, Burnside, Elizabeth, Flinders University, North Adelaide, Old Collegians, Onkaparinga, Port Adelaide, Roseworthy College Rams, Salisbury, Southern Suburbs, West Torrens and Woodville.

Teviot Range

The Flinders-Goolman Conservation Estate is a collection of freehold and public land that is either owned or controlled by Ipswich City Council.

Tirari-Sturt stony desert

The region is home to a variety of wildlife that has adapted to the hot dry conditions including the Wedge-tailed Eagles, Yellow-footed Rock Wallaby and Western Gray Kangaroos of the Flinders Ranges.

Townsville City, Queensland

These include a major redevelopment on Flinders Street Mall by Jarrod McCracken's construction company and the construction of the North Queensland Cowboys Leagues Club.


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