Beth Roberts's story of Manganinnie — an Aboriginal Tasmanian woman separated from her people during the Black Drive of 1830, the coordinated colonial military operation that attempted to sweep the remaining Aboriginal population of Van Diemen's Land into the Tasman Peninsula. The story was adapted into a highly regarded Australian film in 1980, directed by John Honey and produced by the Tasmanian Film Corporation.
The Cruise of the Freak and the missionary voyages in Bass Strait of Canon Marcus Brownrigg 1872-1885, telling of the lives of Tasmanian Aboriginal people on the Bass Strait islands.
Patsy Adam Smith's account of the mutton-birding culture of the Furneaux Islands — the group of Bass Strait islands of which Flinders Island is the largest — and the Aboriginal and Islander families whose lives have been shaped by the annual harvest of short-tailed shearwaters (muttonbirds) for generations.

