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One of the outer islands and part of the Furneaux
Group of Islands, located north east of Tasmania, Flinders Island was named
after Matthew Flinders, an English sea-captain, who arrived on the island when
it was completely covered by large eucalypt forests and coastline populated by
three species of seals. The largest island of the Furneaux Group, it is about 29
kms wide at its widest point and 64 km long.
It is thought that the island was most probably part of the land bridge which
joined Tasmania to the mainland. With the melting of the ice in the last ice
age, Bass Strait was formed creating islands including that of Flinders and Cape
Barren Islands and of course Tasmania.
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