Flinders Island

noun

1. an island off the coast of NE Tasmania: the largest of the Furneaux Islands. Pop: 850 (2004 est). Area: 2077 sq km (802 sq miles)

Example Sentences

Across the Bass Strait in Tasmania state, residents on the northern edge of Flinders Island were told to evacuate from an out of control bushfire.

From Reuters

After 24 hours of racing the top four yachts Comanche, Black Jack, InfoTrack and Wild Oats XI remained within four nautical miles of the each other as they passed Flinders Island.

From The Guardian

Similarly, Aboriginal Australian hunter-gatherers, variously transplanted to Flinders Island, Tasmania, or southeastern Australia, ended up extinct, or as hunter-gatherers with the modern world’s simplest technology, or as canal builders intensively managing a productive fishery, depending on their environments.

From Literature

Were the seas off Flinders Island in the Great Barrier Reef as green as Morgan depicts them?

From Washington Times

“Approaching the northeast coast of Flinders Island in eastern Bass Strait she suffered damage to the hydraulic ram that adjusts the angle of the canting or swinging keel beneath the hull,” the spokesman said.

From Washington Times