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Med en længde på 1.004 kilometer er det den 8.-længste flod i Australien.<ref name=ga>{{cite web |url=http://www.ga.gov.au/education/geoscience-basics/landforms/longest-rivers.html |title=Longest Rivers |date=18 November 2010 |work=Geoscience Australia |publisher=Commonwealth of Australia |accessdate=3 July 2011 |archive-url=https://www.webcitation.org/65AXP9Mjz?url=http://www.ga.gov.au/education/geoscience-basics/landforms/longest-rivers.html |archive-date=3 February 2012 |url-status=live |df=dmy-all }}</ref> Afvandingsområdet, som dækker 109.000 km²,<ref name="fwfr">{{cite web |url=http://www.bom.gov.au/hydro/flood/qld/brochures/flinders/flinders.shtml |title=Flood Warning System For The Flinders River |publisher=Bureau of Meteorology |accessdate=3 July 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110603055844/http://www.bom.gov.au/hydro/flood/qld/brochures/flinders/flinders.shtml |archive-date=3 June 2011 |url-status=live |df=dmy-all }}</ref> bruges primært til græsning<ref name="anraov">{{cite web |url=http://www.anra.gov.au/topics/water/overview/qld/basin-flinders-river.html |title=Water resources - Overview - Queensland: Flinders River |work=Australian Natural Resources Atlas |publisher=Department of Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities |accessdate=3 July 2011 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110602075659/http://www.anra.gov.au/topics/water/overview/qld/basin-flinders-river.html |archivedate=2 June 2011 |df=dmy-all }}</ref> og anden landbrug. I alt dækker det 1,5% ad det australske kontinent.<ref name=ABCFR>{{cite web|url=http://www.abc.net.au/am/content/2013/s3692320.htm|title=From cattle country to crops: Flinders River moratorium lifted|date=18 February 2013|accessdate=30 May 2015|publisher=[[Australian Broadcasting Corporation]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151220034422/http://www.abc.net.au/am/content/2013/s3692320.htm|archive-date=20 December 2015|url-status=live|df=dmy-all}}</ref>
 
Flinders River har 36 bifloder.<ref name=bonzle/> De vigtigste er Cloncurry River, Saxby River og Corella River.<ref name="fwfr"/> En anden større biflod er Porcupine Creek, der har dannet en dramatisk kløft, som ligger i [[Porcupine Gorge National Park]].<ref name="naq">{{cite book |title=Natural Areas of Queensland |last=Shilton |first=Peter |year=2005 |publisher=Goldpress |location=Mount Gravatt, Queensland |isbn=0-9758275-0-2 |page=256 }}<!--|accessdate=3 July 2011--></ref> Floden løber gennem et permanent vandhul, Flagstone Waterhole.<ref name="bonzle" /> Der er to dæmninger på floden - Flinders River Dam og [[Corella Dam]].<ref name="anraov"/>
 
Flere mindre byer ligger i afvandingsområdet: [[McKinlay, Queensland|McKinlay]], Burke and Wills Junction, Hughenden, Richmond, Julia Creek og [[Cloncurry, Queensland|Cloncurry]].<ref name=sgc/>
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==Flora og fauna==
Vegetationen langs floden i den øvre del af afvandingsområdet omfatter alongtræer theaf riverslægten intetræ, the upper catchment includes [[riparian]] woodlands composed of paperbarks including;heriblandt ''[[Melaleuca argentea]]'', ''[[Melaleuca bracteata]]'' andog ''[[Melaleuca fluviatilis]]'' andog sub-dominant eucalypts including[[eukalyptus]] som ''[[Eucalyptus camaldulensis|River Red Gum]],'' og ''[[Eucalyptus coolabah|Coolabah]],'' with minorsamt ''[[Lysiphyllum cunninghamii|Bauhinia]]. Other species'' found include theog ''[[Acacia salicina|wattle]].'' Infestationsfra of[[ærteblomst-familien]]. weedsInvasive sucharter assom ''[[AcaciaVachellia nilotica|Prickly acacia]], Noogoora[[Xanthium burrstrumarium]], Rubber[[Cryptostegia vinegrandiflora]]'' andog frugttræet ''[[ZizyphusZiziphus mauritiana|Chonky apple]]'' are alsofindes foundogså.<ref name=RD>{{cite web|url=https://research.jcu.edu.au/tropwater/resources/98%2012%20Rchmdam.pdf|title=Richmond Dam and irrigation development proposal ecological issues|date=July 1998|accessdate=31 May 2015|author=Tait, Jim|publisher=[[James Cook University]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304030023/https://research.jcu.edu.au/tropwater/resources/98%2012%20Rchmdam.pdf|archive-date=4 March 2016|url-status=live|df=dmy-all}}</ref> Underskoven domineres af et tæt dække af græsser The understorey is dominated by a closed cover of riparian grasses including native couch on the sandy loamsden adjacentsandede thelermuld streamlangs channelsfloden.
 
==Historie==
[[File:Edward Jukes Greig - Arrival of Burke & Wills at Flinders River, 1862.jpg|thumb|left|Burke & Wills ankommer til Flinders River, malet af Edward Jukes Greig i 1862]]