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Flinders Group is a national park in Queensland (Australia),1,745 km northwest of Brisbane.
Flinders University is a public research university in Adelaide,South Australia. Founded in 1966,it was named in honour of British navigator Matthew Flinders,who explored and surveyed the South Australian coastline in the early 19th century.
Flinders is a seaside town 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 2016 census,Flinders had a population of 905.
Flinders Island,the largest island in the Furneaux Group,is a 1,367-square-kilometre (528 sq mi) island in the Bass Strait,northeast of the island of Tasmania. Flinders Island is part of the state of Tasmania,Australia. It is 54 kilometres (34 mi) from Cape Portland and is located on 40°south,a zone known as the Roaring Forties.
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 Highway passes a number of small outback towns and typical outback landscape predominates towards the inland. It was known as National Route 78 before Queensland began to convert to the alphanumeric system being adopted in Australia and is now designated as A6. The highway is also known as Overlanders Way. Its entire length is part of the National Land Transport Network.
Flinders Ranges Council is a local government area (LGA) located in the Flinders Ranges of South Australia.
The Mid North is a region of South Australia,north of the Adelaide Plains,but not as far north as the Far North,or the outback. It is generally accepted to extend from Spencer Gulf east to the Barrier Highway,including the coastal plain,the southern part of the Flinders Ranges,and the northern part of the Mount Lofty Ranges. The area was settled as early as 1840 and provided early farming and mining outputs for the fledgling colony. Farming is still significant in the area,particularly wheat,sheep and grapevines. There are not currently any significant mining activities in the Mid North but interest has been shown in iron ore mining by Australian Tailings Group in the area of Olary Creek.
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Telowie Gorge Conservation Park,formerly Telowie Gorge National Park,was a protected area located in the Australian state of South Australia to the east of the town of Port Germein in the gazetted locality of Telowie. It became part of the Wapma Thura–Southern Flinders Ranges National Park on 25 November 2021.
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Joseph Karl Szakacs is an Australian politician and trade unionist. He is a Labor Party member of the South Australian Legislative Assembly,representing the electoral district of Cheltenham since the 2019 Cheltenham by-election.
Richard "Harry" Harris,,is an Australian anaesthetist and cave diver who played a crucial role in the Tham Luang cave rescue. He and Craig Challen were jointly awarded 2019 Australian of the Year as a result of that rescue.
Wapma Thura–Southern Flinders Ranges National Park is a protected area in the southern Flinders Ranges in South Australia,proclaimed on 26 November 2021. The area comprises several former conservation parks.
Richmond–Croydon Road is a continuous 360 kilometres (220 mi) road route in the Richmond,Croydon and Etheridge local government areas of Queensland,Australia. It is part of the shortest route from the Croydon / Georgetown area to Winton and Longreach. It is also part of the inland freight network linking cattle properties to major freight routes on the Landsborough and Flinders highways.
Ludwik Dutkiewicz (1921-2008),was a Ukrainian born Australian artist. He was born in Stara Sil,Ukraine on 2 February 1921. He won the 1953 and 1954 Cornell Prize.
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- ↑ "Flinders – SA Electorate, Candidates, Results". abc.net.au. Retrieved 26 March 2022.
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