Flinders Island
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Key facts
- Etymology
- Matthew Flinders
- Location
- Bass Strait
- Archipelago
- Furneaux Group
- Area
- 1,367 km (528 sq mi)
- Area rank
- 2nd in Tasmania
- Length
- 62 km (38.5 mi)
- Width
- 37 km (23 mi)
- Highest elevation
- 756 m (2480 ft)
- Highest point
- Mount Strzelecki
- State
- Tasmania
- Lga
- Municipality of Flinders Island
- Largest settlement
- Whitemark (pop. 170)
- Population
- 922 (2021)
- Pop density
- 0.673/km (1.743/sq mi)
- Official website
- visitflindersisland .com .au
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- island
- Part of
- Furneaux Group
- Named after
- Matthew Flinders
- Country
- Australia
- Located in
- Tasmania
- Capital
- Whitemark
- Population
- 776
- Area
- 1367
- Elevation
- 756
- Body of water
- Bass Strait
- Image
- Flinders island.jpg
- Width
- 37
- Length
- 62
- Dialing code
- 0367
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Encyclopedic overview
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. Today 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.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Flinders Island” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.