Flinders Island offers a wide range of scenic places to visit. The largest of more than 80 islands of the Furneaux Group and situated in eastern Bass Strait, Flinders Island is now attracting more visitors to experience the unique and little known attractions of lagoons, colourful rocky coasts, farmland, forest and beaches.

North

Killecrankie
Mt Tanner
North East River
Palana
West End

Centre

Cameron Inlet
Emita
Memana
Patriarch Wildlife Sanctuary
Walkers Lookout
Whitemark
Wireless Hill
Wybalena

South

Lady Barron
Mt Strzelecki
Trousers Point
Vinegar Hill

Mt Strzelecki

Named after the Polish explorer and scientist, Paul Edmund Strzelecki, Mt Strzelecki rises sharply from a narrow coastal plain on the southwest corner of the island. The granite peaks rises 756 metres and from its summit mainland Tasmania is clearly visible.

Trousers Point

A favourite picnic area with a superb beach curving around the small bay with the imposing backdrop of Mt Strzelecki with sheoaks and orange lichen covered granite rocks providing opportunities for photographs.

Lady Barron

The township of Lady Barron hosts the local fishing fleet and charter vessels are available for fishing or sightseeing tours.

The local tavern provides accommodation and fine meals regularly featuring local game and fish on the menu.

Each Easter, the town is the focal point for the annual Hydro Tasmania Three Peaks Race where yachts racing from Beauty Point to Hobart each drop off two runners for a 65 km run to the summit of Mt Strzelecki and return before continuing the race onto Coles Bay. Produce and artifacts are sold in the wharf shed and a bargain can regularly be found.

Lady Barron township

Vinegar Hill

Just a short distance from Lady Barron is the lookout at Vinegar Hill. Providing an expansive view of Franklin Sound and its islands with the infamous Pot Boil shoals to the east, the visitor can see in the distance the remains of the barque Farsund that foundered in 1912.

As the tidal flow of water rushes from Bass Strait through Franklin Sound to the Tasman Sea, the shallow sands of the Pot Boil cause any easterly sea or swell to rise up and break spectacularly often to the extent that the navigation channel to the sea is far to dangerous to use. Fishing and other boats have to make alternative arrangements in these conditions.

Cameron Inlet

A large inlet, partly open water and part swamp, Cameron Inlet provides habitat for man water birds.

Large flocks of migratory birds use the Flinders Island wetlands on their annual journey north. The months of March and April are ideal to see them.

North East River

Many Flinders Islanders have their holiday cottages at North East River such is the beauty of this corner of the island. 56 kilometres from Whitemark brings you to the mouth of the North East River where it enters Bass Strait.

Fast tidal flows make crossing the river dangerous but the fishing is good.

Mt Tanner

On a clear day a large amount of Flinders Island and surrounding Bass Strait Islands are visible from the 331 metre summit. In addition to the supurb view, visitors will see a variety of bird life including wedge-tailed eagles soaring on the updrafts around the mountain.

In 1967 a micro-wave communications towers was built to connect the island to Victoria and mainland Tasmania.

Killiecrankie

The lucky fossicker might find a Killiecrankie diamond in the gravels of Killiecrannkie Bay or nearby Mines Creek. The stones are actually topaz and are usually clear but sometimes pale blue or amber ones can be found. The better stones can be cut into sparkling gemstones.

Whitemark

Whitemark is the main town on Flinders Island and has many features to interest the visitor. It is the civic and commercial centre and main port. The historic Interstate Hotel built in 1912 is a handy base from which all points of the island can be easily reached.

Commercial vessels have to be tough to berth at the wharf as at low tide when a beachcomber can walk on sand beyond the end of the wharf the boats have to sit on their keels.

Nearby is the main island airport that is one of the busiest in Tasmania taking fresh and frozen island seafood to mainland markets, genaral freight as well as many passengers to and from the island.

Wybalena

The local museum shows some of the unhappy history of the aborigines who were settled in this locality in the 1830's. The chapel once used as a shearing shed has been restored and more history can be gleaned from the headstones in the graveyard.