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Flinders Ports Pty Limited is a company incorporated in 2001 [1] that manages seven of South Australia's ten ports fronting the Great Australian Bight, Spencer Gulf and Gulf St Vincent. It is the state's largest port operator, [ 2 ] employing more than 800 people as of 2016 [update] .
Port Giles is a port on Yorke Peninsula in the Australian state of South Australia located in the gazetted locality of Coobowie between the towns of Stansbury and Edithburgh. [ 1 ] Port Giles a port facility consisting of a large jetty equipped for bulk handling of grain which is operated by Flinders Ports , [ 3 ] and a similarly large grain ...
Railway Pier in the late-1800s. Station Pier, originally known as Railway Pier, was officially opened on 12 September 1854. [1] The 4.5 kilometre Port Melbourne line from the pier to Flinders Street station via the Sandridge Bridge was opened at the same time to facilitate the transport of passengers and goods, and was the first significant railway in Australia. [2]
The first recorded exploration of the gulf was that of Matthew Flinders in February 1802. Flinders navigated inland from the present location of Port Augusta to within 44–39 km (27–24 mi) of the termination of the water body. [1] The gulf was named Spencer's Gulph by Flinders on 20 March 1802, after George John Spencer, the 2nd Earl Spencer ...
Weeroona Island (formerly known as Port Flinders) is a locality in the Australian state of South Australia about 209 kilometres (130 miles) north of the state capital of Adelaide and about 9.5 kilometres (5.9 mi) northeast of the city of Port Pirie. [4] [1] Weeroona Island began as a private subdivision of land in the Hundreds of Pirie and ...
Bass Strait ferry Spirit of Tasmania I in 2014. Bass Strait Ferries have been the ships that have been used for regular transport across Bass Strait between Tasmania and Victoria on mainland Australia, [1] [2] [3] as well as the various attempts to link Tasmania with Sydney.
The port has revealed its 2025 cruise schedule and said each sailing could provide a £1.5m boost to the local economy. Regular cruise lines include Fred Olsen and Saga Cruises, ...
In 2016 the museum hosted the inaugural showing of a two-year national travelling exhibition from the Museum d’Histoire Naturelle du Havre, celebrating the French explorer Nicolas Baudin's 1800—1804 voyage, which included his mapping of the southern coast of Australia, and his meeting with Matthew Flinders at Encounter Bay in present-day South Australia.