Flinders Street, Adelaide

Flinders Street
South Australia
Flinders Street, looking east from King William Street
General information
Type Street
Length 1.2 km (0.7 mi)[1]
Opened 1837
Major junctions
Western end King William Street
  Pulteney Street
Eastern end East Terrace

Flinders Street is a main street in the city centre of Adelaide, South Australia.[2][3] It was the location of Flinders St School of Music, a campus of TAFE, but has been closed in the last decade. It is named after the navigator and cartographer Captain Matthew Flinders.

Flinders Street runs from the northern end of Victoria Square to East Terrace, Adelaide. It is one of the intermediate-width streets of the Adelaide grid, at 1 1⁄2 chains (99 ft; 30 m) wide.

Junction list

Locationkm[4]miDestinationsNotes
Adelaide city centre00.0Victoria Square, King William StreetContinues as Franklin Street
0.20.12Gawler Place
0.550.34Pulteney Street
0.750.47Frome Street
1.10.68Hutt StreetEastern side of the intersection is permanently closed to traffic
1.20.75East Terrace
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi

See also

Australian Roads portal

References

  1. ↑ Google. "Flinders Street" (Map). Google Maps. Google.
  2. ↑ 2003 Adelaide Street Directory, 41st Edition. UBD (A Division of Universal Press Pty Ltd). 2003. ISBN 0-7319-1441-4.
  3. ↑ Map of the Adelaide CBD, North Adelaide and the Adelaide Parklands.
  4. ↑ Google (11 December 2016). "Flinders Street, Adelaide" (Map). Google Maps. Google. Retrieved 11 December 2016.
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