County of Flinders

Flinders
South Australia
Curta Rocks on the southern coast of Eyre Peninsula in the County of Flinders
Flinders is located in South Australia
Flinders
Flinders
Coordinates34°30′07″S 135°41′56″E / 34.502°S 135.699°E / -34.502; 135.699
Established1842[1]
Area4,760 square kilometres (1,838 sq mi)[2]
LGA(s)City of Port Lincoln[2]
District Council of Lower Eyre Peninsula[2]
District Council of Tumby Bay[2]
RegionEyre Western[3]
Lands administrative divisions around Flinders:
Musgrave Musgrave
Jervois
Jervois
Ocean Flinders Spencer Gulf
Ocean Ocean Spencer Gulf
FootnotesCoordinates[2]

The County of Flinders is one of the 49 cadastral counties of South Australia.[2] 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.”[4][5]

  1. ^ "PROCLAMATION" (PDF). The South Australian Government Gazette. 1842. Government of South Australia: 1–2. 2 June 1842. Retrieved 20 July 2016.
  2. ^ a b c d e f "Search result for "County of Flinders, Cnty" with the following datasets selected - "Counties", "Gazetteer", "Hundreds" and "Local Government Areas"". Location SA Map Viewer. Government of South Australia. Retrieved 11 January 2018.
  3. ^ "Eyre Western SA Government region" (PDF). The Government of South Australia. Retrieved 20 July 2016.
  4. ^ Cite error: The named reference hundreds-map was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  5. ^ "PROCLAMATION BY THE GOVERNOR" (PDF). The South Australian Government Gazette. 1872 (9). Government of South Australia: 1. 22 February 1872. Retrieved 20 July 2016.