Flindersisland.com.au
Title
Flinders Island Adventure Fishing Tours and Island Tours
Description
Located 60 km off the north east tip of Tasmania and to the south east of Wilson's Promontory Victoria, Flinders Island is the largest of the Furneaux Group of islands which stretch across the eastern end of Bass Strait.
The islands were part of the land bridge which once joined Tasmania to the mainland. Bass Strait was formed as a result of the melting of ice after the last ice age leaving the mountain tops to form the present day chain of islands.
The islands were first identified by Europeans when Tobias Furneaux, the commander of Captain Cook's support ship sighted the islands in 1773. Following the 1797 wrecking of the trading ship the "Sydney Cove" on Preservation Island, the rescuers from Sydney reported large numbers of seals among the islands which led to the first settlement south of Sydney by sealers and exploration by Mathew Flinders.
Languages
English
