Sitting between Flinders and Cape Barren, Vansittart Island packs a remarkable amount of history into a small patch of Bass Strait. A history tour here is a walk through the story of the whole Furneaux Group.
Layers of the past
The island carries traces of the sealing and muttonbirding era, of the Aboriginal and islander families whose roots run deep through these waters, and of the hard, self reliant life that Bass Strait has always demanded. Standing on the shore, it is easy to feel how remote and how connected these islands were at the same time.
See it with a local
The best way to understand Vansittart is with someone who grew up on these islands. A guided history tour brings the natural, cultural and historical threads together, with the landscape itself as the storyteller.
Explore the Vansittart Island page or our history tours.