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Flinders Island

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Flinders Island, Australia: see Furneaux Group Furneaux Group , about 25 islands, c.900 sq mi (2,330 sq km), Tasmania, SE Australia, in Bass Strait between Tasmania and the Australian mainland. The largest is Flinders Island, and the group forms Flinders municipality.
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Flinders Island
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)


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honei, a member of the spotted fever group Rickettsia, has been reported as the etiologic agent of Flinders Island spotted fever in Australia (8) and also of Thai tick typhus (3).
It was not co-incidental that this publication was launched among Murray-Smith's friends on Flinders Island, not far from the site of the chapel built for Robinson's Wybalenna settlement for Tasmanian Aborigines deported to the island.
The mothers originated from Flinders Island (Tasmania) natural stock and the fathers originated from Cape Portland (north-eastern Tasmania) natural stock.
 
 
 
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