"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 trauma centre for the southern suburbs, and parts of the Adelaide Hills. An around-the-clock emergency retrieval service brings patients to FMC by road or helicopter. FMC is part of the Southern Adelaide Local Health Network (SALHN) which includes the Noarlunga Hospital, Drug and Alcohol Services South Australia and a range of outreach and community-based services. The State Government invested"
"St Mary Peak St Mary Peak (Native name: Ngarri Mudlanha) is a mountain located in the Australian state of South Australia on the northwestern side of Wilpena Pound and is the highest peak in the Flinders Ranges with a height of . It is located within the Flinders Ranges National Park and the gazetted locality of Flinders Ranges, South Australia. St Mary Peak is the eighth highest peak in South Australia (the highest seven all being in the Musgrave Ranges). Its former name ""St Mary's Peak"" (legally changed according to the ""possessive nouns"" rule) remains in colloquial use. The Adnyamathanha"
"Flinders Ranges Council Flinders Ranges Council is a local government area (LGA) located in the Flinders Ranges of South Australia. The LGA is approximately 100 km from north to south, and 45 km from east to west, with a total area of 4,198 square kilometres. The main towns within the council are Hawker and Quorn; it also includes the localities of Barndioota, Kanyaka and Stephenston, and part of Bruce, Cradock, Flinders Ranges, Moockra, Saltia, Shaggy Ridge, Wilmington and Yarrah. It was created on 1 January 1997 following the merger of the District Council of Kanyaka-Quorn and the District Council of"
"Flinders Island Flinders Island, the largest island in the Furneaux Group, is a island located in the Bass Strait, northeast of the island of Tasmania. Flinders Island is part of the state of Tasmania, Australia, and is situated from Cape Portland and it is located on 40° south, a zone known as the Roaring Forties. Flinders Island was first inhabited at least 35,000 years ago, when people made their way from Australia across the then-land bridge which is now Bass Strait. A population remained until about 4,500 years ago, succumbing to thirst and hunger following an acute El Niño climate"
"people have expressed concern with tourists trekking to St Mary Peak as they regard it as a sacred place and not to be visited. However, the peak and its surroundings may be accessed via a walking trail from Wilpena Resort along the north-east edge of the range outside of Wilpena Pound, or via a longer trail through the middle of the pound. St Mary Peak St Mary Peak (Native name: Ngarri Mudlanha) is a mountain located in the Australian state of South Australia on the northwestern side of Wilpena Pound and is the highest peak in the Flinders Ranges with"
"Flinders and Cape Barren Island. Internet access is limited to either a satellite dish connection or to use the 3G network. Flinders Island Flinders Island, the largest island in the Furneaux Group, is a island located in the Bass Strait, northeast of the island of Tasmania. Flinders Island is part of the state of Tasmania, Australia, and is situated from Cape Portland and it is located on 40° south, a zone known as the Roaring Forties. Flinders Island was first inhabited at least 35,000 years ago, when people made their way from Australia across the then-land bridge which is now"
"Frankland Range The Frankland Range is a mountain range that is located in the south-west region of Tasmania, Australia. The range forms part of a natural south-western border to the impounded Lake Pedder, formed by the damming of the Serpentine and Huon rivers. As part of the South West Wilderness area, it is a less popular site of bushwalking than other, more famous, ranges in Tasmania's South West, and is for much more advanced walkers due to its length, isolation and terrain. Access routes to the range are by boat from the lake, or the roads at Strathgordon or Scotts"
"should be known officially as Australia. Although he never once used his own name for any feature in all his discoveries, Flinders' name is now associated with over 100 geographical features and places in Australia in addition to Flinders Island in Bass Strait. Flinders is seen as being particularly important in South Australia, where he is considered the main explorer of the state. Landmarks named after him in South Australia include the Flinders Ranges and Flinders Ranges National Park, Flinders Column at Mount Lofty, Flinders Chase National Park on Kangaroo Island, Flinders University, Flinders Medical Centre, the suburb Flinders Park"
"of the mammals. There are a large number of bird species including parrots, galahs, emus, the wedge-tailed eagle and small numbers of water birds. Reptiles include goannas, snakes, dragon lizards, skinks and geckos. The streambank froglet is an endemic amphibian. The Ranges are part of the Tirari–Sturt stony desert ecoregion. The first humans to inhabit the Flinders Ranges were the Adnyamathanha people (meaning ""hill people"" or ""rock people"") whose descendants still reside in the area, and the Ndajurri people who no longer exist. Cave paintings, rock engravings and other artefacts indicate that the Adnyamathana and Ndajurri lived in the Flinders"
"the Ikara-Flinders Ranges National Park and Bunkers Conservation Reserve, whose eastern boundaries align with that of the locality. The Marree railway line and The Outback Highway both pass through the west side of the locality while the Flinders Ranges Way passes through the south-east side. As of 2012, its land use was either pastoral farming or conservation. The Marree railway line is the boundary between these uses, with pastoral farming to the west and land to the east zoned for conservation, including the Ikara-Flinders Ranges National Park and the Bunker Conservation Reserve. Flinders Ranges is located within the federal division"
"Rawnsley's Bluff Rawnsley's Bluff is a geological feature in Australia. It is a bluff that is part of Wilpena Pound, and it is south of St Mary Peak (St Mary Peak is the tallest in the Flinders Ranges at 3,825 feet (1,166 meters)). Rawnsley's Bluff connects the eastern and western mountain ranges of the pound. The Adelaide Scotch College Cadet Unit used the bluff for training each year until the unit was disbanded in the early 1970s. Training included flights with helicopters, infantry training, and practice with infantry weapons such as mortars. The unit was noted for providing outdoor adventures"
"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 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"
"Flinders Bay Flinders Bay is a bay and locality that is immediately south of the townsite of Augusta, and close to the mouth of the Blackwood River. The locality and bay lies to the north east of Cape Leeuwin which is the most south-westerly mainland point of the Australian Continent, in the state of Western Australia. On Matthew Flinders Terra Australis Sheet 1 1801–1803 the area was originally known as ""Dangerous Bight"". The bay runs from Point Matthew East North East of Cape Leeuwin to Ledge Point some east. It was named by either James Stirling or Septimus Roe in"
"of China is located just outside the park. Camping is permitted at many locations in the park. The Flinders Ranges are largely composed of folded and faulted sediments of the Adelaide Geosyncline. This very thick sequence of sediments were deposited in a large basin during the Neoproterozoic on the passive margin of the ancient continent of Rodinia. During the Cambrian, approximately 540 million years ago, the area underwent the Delamerian orogeny where the geosynclinal sequence was folded and faulted into a large mountain range. Since this time the area has undergone erosion resulting in the relatively low ranges today. Most"
"Vulkathunha-Gammon Ranges National Park The Vulkathunha-Gammon Ranges National Park is a protected area in the Australian state of South Australia located in the northern Flinders Ranges, immediately southwest of and adjacent to the Arkaroola Protection Area. They encompass some of the most rugged and spectacular country in South Australia. The central ranges are of a different topographical nature to the rest of the Flinders, being composed of roughly flat-lying strata, creating a high plateau into which spectacular gorges have been cut, instead of the buckled and folded strata further south which lead to the ubiquitous cuestas of Wilpena Pound. The"
"County of Flinders The County of Flinders is one of the 49 counties of South Australia. The county covers the southern part of the Eyre Peninsula “bounded on the north by a line connecting Point Drummond with Cape Burr, and on all other sides by the seacoast, including all islands adjacent to the main land.” The county was proclaimed by George Grey, the third Governor of South Australia, on 2 June 1842. The county originally extended from Cape Wiles on the west side of the peninsula to Cape Catastrophe in the south and to the “northern extremity of Louth Bay”"
"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 Expedition (February 1937) and the Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition (December 1947). It was surveyed from the ground by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey in December 1958, and was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee after Matthew Flinders, an English navigator who discovered the cause of deviation in magnetic compasses, and pointed the way to a"
"Flinders Ranges, is St Mary Peak (1171m), on the north-eastern side. To the south of the Gap on the eastern side, the highest peak is Point Bonney (1133m). On the north-western side of the Pound, the highest point is Pompey's Pillar (1165m), and Rawnsley's Bluff (950m) at the southern end is the other major summit. The wall of mountains almost completely encircles the gently-sloping interior of the Pound, with the only breaks being the gorge at Wilpena Gap and a high saddle in the south-western range over which the Heysen Trail passes. This latter saddle is called Bridle Gap, supposedly"
"to the student body. In the 1890s Rawnsley's Bluff was home to a trigonometrical station, supporting surveying in South Australia. Rawnsley's Bluff Rawnsley's Bluff is a geological feature in Australia. It is a bluff that is part of Wilpena Pound, and it is south of St Mary Peak (St Mary Peak is the tallest in the Flinders Ranges at 3,825 feet (1,166 meters)). Rawnsley's Bluff connects the eastern and western mountain ranges of the pound. The Adelaide Scotch College Cadet Unit used the bluff for training each year until the unit was disbanded in the early 1970s. Training included flights"
"with a total distance of and a return time of 4 hours. The Dutchmans Stern The Dutchmans Stern is a mountain in South Australia located in the Flinders Ranges about north-west of the town of Quorn and north east of the city of Port Augusta. The mountain was named due to its “supposed resemblance to the stern of a Dutch vessel” with one source attributing the naming to early settlers in the vicinity while another source gives attribution to the British navigator, Matthew Flinders.The mountain has a height of . Since 1987, it has been located within the boundaries of"
"Mount Brown (South Australia) Mount Brown is a mountain in the Australian state of South Australia located in the Flinders Ranges about east of the city of Port Augusta. The mountain was named by the British navigator Matthew Flinders on 9 March 1802 after the Scottish botanist, Robert Brown, who was a member of ’s scientific team. Brown along with others from HMS ""Investigator"" including Ferdinand Bauer and William Westall climbed the mountain on 10 and 11 March 1802. The mountain has a height of . Since 1993, it has been located within the boundaries of the protected area known"
"You Yangs The You Yangs are a series of granite ridges that rise to 319m (Flinders Peak) above the Werribee Plain approximately 55 km south-west of Melbourne and 22 km north-east of Geelong, in Victoria, Australia. The main ridge runs roughly north–south for about 9 km, with a lower extension running for about 15 km to the west. Much of the southern parts of the ranges are protected by the You Yangs Regional Park. Although only 319 m at their highest, they dominate the landscape and are clearly identifiable from nearby Geelong, Melbourne and beyond. Camping is not permitted in"
"Division of Flinders The Division of Flinders is an Australian Electoral Division in Victoria. The division is one of the original 65 divisions contested at the first federal election. It is named for Matthew Flinders, the first man to circumnavigate Australia, and the person credited with giving Australia its name. Originally a country seat south and east of Melbourne, Flinders is now a hybrid urban-rural seat based on the outer southern suburbs on the Mornington Peninsula, including Dromana, Hastings and Portsea. It has usually been a fairly safe seat for the Liberal Party and its predecessors, who have held it"
"Hawker. The LGA adjoins the following to the south - City of Port Augusta, District Council of Mount Remarkable and District Council of Orroroo Carrieton, while the remainder of the adjoining land is within the unincorporated area of South Australia where municipal services are provided by the Outback Communities Authority. Flinders Ranges Council is entirely in the state electorate of Giles and the federal Division of Grey. The Flinders Ranges Council has a directly-elected mayor. Flinders Ranges Council Flinders Ranges Council is a local government area (LGA) located in the Flinders Ranges of South Australia. The LGA is approximately 100"
"Mount Lofty Ranges The Mount Lofty Ranges are the range of mountains just to the east of Adelaide in the Australian state of South Australia. The Mount Lofty Ranges stretch from the southernmost point of the Fleurieu Peninsula at Cape Jervis northwards for over before petering out north of Peterborough. In the vicinity of Adelaide, they separate the Adelaide Plains from the extensive plains that surround the Murray River and stretch eastwards to Victoria. The Heysen Trail traverses almost the entire length of the ranges, crossing westwards to the Flinders Ranges near Hallett. The mountains have a Mediterranean climate with"
"the Adnyamathanha people were recognised by the Federal Court of Australia as having native title rights over about running east from the edge of Lake Torrens, through the northern Flinders Ranges, approaching the South Australian border with New South Wales. Adam Goodes, the four-time All-Australian AFL footballer, has declared on his Twitter account, that he is an ""Andyamathanha[sic]/Narungga man"". Rebecca Richards, the first Aboriginal Rhodes Scholar, is an Adnyamathanha and Barngarla woman. Adnyamathanha The Adnyamathanha (Pronounced: ) are a contemporary Indigenous Australian people from the Flinders Ranges, South Australia, formed as an aggregate of several distinct peoples. Strictly speaking the"
"corner. County of Flinders The County of Flinders is one of the 49 counties of South Australia. The county covers the southern part of the Eyre Peninsula “bounded on the north by a line connecting Point Drummond with Cape Burr, and on all other sides by the seacoast, including all islands adjacent to the main land.” The county was proclaimed by George Grey, the third Governor of South Australia, on 2 June 1842. The county originally extended from Cape Wiles on the west side of the peninsula to Cape Catastrophe in the south and to the “northern extremity of Louth"
"Adelaide Rift Complex The Adelaide Rift Complex (also known as Adelaide Geosyncline) is a major geological province in central South Australia. It stretches from the northernmost parts of the Flinders Ranges, narrowing at the Fleurieu Peninsula and extending into Kangaroo Island, and composes the two major mountain ranges of the State: the Flinders Ranges and the Mount Lofty Ranges. The sediments in the rift complex were deposited between about 870 Ma (the middle Neoproterozoic) to ~500 Ma (the end of the Cambrian). They consist of a thick pile of sedimentary rocks and minor volcanic rocks that were deposited on the"
"Investigator Group The Investigator Group is an archipelago in South Australia that consists of Flinders Island and five island groups located off the western coast of the Eyre Peninsula. It is named after by her commander, Matthew Flinders when he explored the area in 1802. The Group lies within the Great Australian Bight. All the islands except Flinders Island, and a part of Pearson Island, are within the Investigator Group Wilderness Protection Area and the Waldegrave Islands Conservation Park. The Investigator Group is a group of islands and associated landforms that are located within an area extending for a distance"
"Matthew Flinders Captain Matthew Flinders (16 March 1774 – 19 July 1814) was an English navigator and cartographer, who was the leader of the first circumnavigation of Australia and identified it as a continent. Flinders made three voyages to the southern ocean between 1791 and 1810. In the second voyage, George Bass and Flinders confirmed that Van Diemen's Land (now Tasmania) was an island. In the third voyage, Flinders circumnavigated the mainland of what was to be called Australia, accompanied by Aboriginal man Bungaree. Heading back to England in 1803, Flinders' vessel needed urgent repairs at Isle de France (Mauritius)."
"area of the Flinders Ranges Council. Stephenston, South Australia Stephenston is a locality in the Australian state of South Australia located on the eastern side of the Flinders Ranges about north of the state capital of Adelaide and about east of the municipal seat of Quorn. Boundaries for the locality were created in March 1997 for the “long established name“ which was “incorrectly spelt as Stephenson” in the South Australian Government Gazette of 13 March 1997 and is derived from the ceased Government Town of Stephenston whose site is located within the boundaries of the locality. The Government Town of"
"emphasised the similarity to wild abalone and the difference from shore based aquaculture. ""We're not aquaculture, we're ranching, because once they're in the water they look after themselves."" Flinders Bay Flinders Bay is a bay and locality that is immediately south of the townsite of Augusta, and close to the mouth of the Blackwood River. The locality and bay lies to the north east of Cape Leeuwin which is the most south-westerly mainland point of the Australian Continent, in the state of Western Australia. On Matthew Flinders Terra Australis Sheet 1 1801–1803 the area was originally known as ""Dangerous Bight""."
"solution, 1805–14. 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 Expedition (February 1937) and the Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition (December 1947). It was surveyed from the ground by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey in December 1958, and was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee after Matthew Flinders, an English navigator who discovered the cause of deviation in magnetic compasses, and pointed the way"