<guide><text class="heading1">Flinders Island</text><text
        class="text">Flinders Island has a lot of bouldering potential. It is mostly undeveloped as of yet. The following text is from Nick Hancock, and is included here with his permission. Topos will come eventually.</text><text
        class="text">Located off the northeast coast of Tasmania, Flinders Island is home to a largely undeveloped, and magnificently varied, granite, climbing wonderland. Extensive multi-pitch cliffs vie for attention, along with a myriad of shorter climbs and an almost unlimited number of boulders. To visit the island is much more than just another climbing holiday, it means a return to the Australia of old, a place where nature and the landscape dominates, and the few inhabitants are really friendly and genuinely interested in what you are doing there. Flinders Island is so much more than the perfect climbing destination, it is an oasis of unspoilt mountains and beaches, where encounters with wildlife, both above and below the surface of the ever present sea, is as important as the designer boulders and the vast number of, so far, untrodden lines.</text><text
        class="text">The coastal boulders are what really makes Flinders Island unique, and with the current popularity of the sub-sport, are likely to become the major drawcard for climbers in the future. This is real bouldering, the aim being to get to the top of seemingly impossible summits, with the nearby crystal clear seas providing a welcome distraction, if it gets too hot to send your latest piece de resistance! </text><text
        class="heading2">Killiecrankie</text><text
        class="text">She Oak Point and Blyth Point in the far north of the island have a great collection of easier problems to about V3 in a beautiful situation, with countless new possibilities.</text><text
        class="text">Surrounding Killiecrankie Castle and on the headland just to its north is a great collection of beautiful boulders with many harder problems up to V6, a couple of which were inspected on a top rope first. </text><problem
        extra="(Highball, Stand)" grade="V6" name="Killer Crank"
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        stars="***">The standout problem of the island can be found on a huge leaning boulder directly opposite to the entrance to The Castle. Very reminiscent of Midnight Lightning in Yosemite's Camp 4, and like that climb needs a cool head to top out on the V2 climbing that comes after the crux!</problem><text
        class="text">Boat Harbour and its nearby Sentinel Island offer many opportunities on not so small boulders, as do Twelve Hour Point and Roydon Island, near West End, but to make the most of these areas you'll need access to a boat of some kind.</text><text
        class="heading2">Emita</text><text
        class="text">A bit further south near Emita is the most amazing boulder I have ever seen. Castle Rock is a massive block over 15 metres high, set in a magnificent location with the sea lapping its foot, and a perfect crack running horizontally around it at half height. Unfortunately this crack is way out of reach unless you have a very long stick, and are happy about jumaring up to a blindly placed cam. If you are then I can thoroughly recommend an ascent at 18 M2.</text><text
        class="text">Of more free climbing interest is the collection of boulders around Settlement Point. Allports Beach, Port Davies, Bird Island, Lillies Beach and Sawyers Bay have a virtually unlimited supply of problems, up to V4 so far, mostly above soft sandy landings, on perfect fine grained granodiorite, like that found at the Bluestone Bay cliffs of Freycinet.</text><text
        class="heading2">Trousers Point</text><text
        class="text">Last but not least is Trousers Point, at the south west tip of the island below Strzelecki. There is a massive boulder in the paddock on the way out to the point with the semi-highball Love Life (V0), although the many other problems here need a rope; but the best climbing is on some awesome freestanding coastal boulders just west of the campground. </text><problem
        extra="(Highball, Stand)" grade="V0" name="Love Life"
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        stars="*">On the massive boulder in the paddock on the way out to the point</problem><problem
        extra="(Highball, Stand)" grade="V4" name="Knob Jockey"
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        stars="*">On the freestanding coastal boulders just west of the campground</problem><problem
        extra="(Stand)" grade="V4" name="Knob Job" number="
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