Starting with the first shipwreck in the waters around the Furneaux Islands - the Sydney Cove, 1797 - this book tells the stories of ships wrecked around the Furneaux Group, the islands at the eastern end of Bass Strait.
It also tells the stories of those who chose to live on the Furneaux islands - the ex-convicts, sealers, and adventurers know as the Straitsmen, the Tasmanian Aboriginal women they kidnapped, and the lighthouse keepers who saved many voyagers from disaster.
Softcover book
Published 2023
91-pages, indexed |
