Flinders Island Cruises
Flinders Island lies off the northeast tip of Tasmania in the Bass Strait and is the largest of the Furneaux Group. It boasts rugged landscapes, granite peaks, beautiful beaches and headlands of granite boulders encrusted with orange lichen. Flinders Island is home to just under 1,000 people whose livelihood is closely linked to the sea. Wybalena on the island is the site of an enforced Aboriginal settlement from the 1800s and thecemetery and a restored chapel remain. The Emita Museum displays a range of Aboriginal artefacts as well as old sealing and sailing relics.