Flinders Island
Flinders Island is an island in New South Wales, Australia. Flinders Island is situated nearby to the suburb Port Kembla, as well as near Wollongong city centre.Places of Interest
Highlights include Breakwater Battery and Port Kembla railway station.
Breakwater Battery
Museum
Breakwater Battery, was a coastal defence battery at Port Kembla, New South Wales, Australia during World War II. Constructed in 1939 to provide protection for Port Kembla from enemy shipping and submarines. Breakwater Battery is situated 2½ km southwest of Flinders Island.
Port Kembla railway station
Railway station
Photo: Abesty, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Port Kembla railway station is a single-platform intercity train terminal located in Port Kembla, Australia, on the South Coast railway line's Port Kembla branch. Port Kembla railway station is situated 3½ km southwest of Flinders Island.
Port Kembla harbour
Photo: Graeme Bartlett, CC BY 3.0.
Port Kembla is a man-made cargo port or artificial harbour, with an outer harbour protected by breakwaters and an inner harbour constructed by dredging, located in the Illawarra region of New South Wales, Australia. Port Kembla harbour is situated 3 km west of Flinders Island.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Port Kembla and Coniston.
Port Kembla
Suburb
Port Kembla is a suburb of Wollongong 10 km south of the CBD and part of the Illawarra region of New South Wales. The suburb comprises a seaport, industrial complex, a small harbour foreshore nature reserve, and a small commercial sector. Port Kembla is situated 3½ km southwest of Flinders Island.
Coniston
Suburb
Photo: Graeme Bartlett, CC BY 3.0.
Coniston, is a suburb of Wollongong in New South Wales, Australia. At the 2021 census, it had a population of 2,267. Coniston is just north of the Port Kembla Steelworks and includes the Greenhouse Park, a one time waste pile converted into a natural park area with a weather station. Coniston is situated 5 km northwest of Flinders Island.
Wollongong
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Heading south, Wollongong starts where Sydney finishes. It is the third largest city in New South Wales behind Sydney and Newcastle and is thinly wedged on a coastal plain between an escarpment and the Pacific Ocean, in the Illawarra region.
Flinders Island
- Type: Island
- Description: island in New South Wales, Australia
- Category: landform
- Location: New South Wales, Australia, Oceania
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Turkish—“Flinders Island” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Flinders Island”
- Swedish: “Flinders Island”
- Turkish: “Flinders Adası (III)”
- Turkish: “Flinders Island”
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Localities in the Area
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