Download coordinates as: Porcupine is an outback locality in the Shire of Flinders, Queensland, Australia.

As a consequence, the terrain in the locality is mountainous with the following named peaks (from north to south): Numerous creeks rise in this area flowing into valleys west towards inland Queensland where they eventually become tributaries of the Flinders River which flows through the Gulf Country to the Gulf of Carpentaria.

[22] The Kennedy Developmental Road enters the locality from north (Lyndhurst) and exits to south (Hughenden / Prairie).

[2] The name is believed to derive from the appearance of the spiky leaves of the spinifex bushes in the area.

Options for students living further north in Porcupine would be distance education and boarding school.