Flinders Island
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Flinders Island, the largest island in the Furneaux Group, is a 1,367-square-kilometre island in the Bass Strait, northeast of the island of Tasmania. Today Flinders Island is part of the state of Tas
The Furneaux Group as viewed from space, April 1993
A family on Flinders Island, 1893, by A.J. Campbell
Aerial view of the northwest of Flinders Island
Flinders Island is an important site for the forty-spotted pardalote
Tasmania
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Tasmania is an island state of Australia. It is located 240 kilometres to the south of the Australian mainland, and is separated from it by the Bass Strait. The state encompasses the main island of Ta
Flinders Island
…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…
Tasmania from space
Tessellated pavement, a rare rock formation on the Tasman Peninsula
1807 engraving by French explorer Charles Alexandre Lesueur shows seafaring Aboriginal people and a large canoe on the eastern shore of Schouten Island.
Tasmania is named after Dutch explorer Abel Tasman, the first European to sight the island, in 1642.