Geoffrey Chapman, born on Kangaroo Island and a Ranger in the South Australian National Parks and Wildlife Service from 1969 until his retirement in 2001, has penned the attached 96-page history and bibliography of the early settlement of Kangaroo Island.

As the author makes clear in his introduction, photographs and maps to illustrate this remarkably well researched compilation have been downloaded from the Internet. We acknowledge that the photos of the bee farm were from Napier Mitchell whose father was in charge in the late 1950s; and other photos were from the late Neville Cordes and the Kangaroo Island Pioneer Association of which the author was a member. Any infringement of copyright is inadvertent. The author has generously placed the manuscript under open access conditions. Any person who believes that their copyright has been infringed should contact PaRC.

Geoffrey Chapman has supplied some other manuscripts:

Early post offices on Kangaroo Island

A history of eucalyptus distilling

This paper is a transcript of a talk on ABC Radio on 6 March 1977 By Professor Polakowski, Visiting Professor at the University of Melbourne’s Centre for Environmental Studies.

This memorandum presents a proposal for a 13-day tour of Victorian gardens, signed by Hank van Apeldoorn. It also reports on the Cultural Tourism Conference of August 1987 and progress in establishing a Cultural Tourism Association.

“Our 13 day tour explores the contrasts between the traditional English garden designs with the use of exotic species and the increasingly popular use of native Australian plants in the changing gardens styles of Victoria.”

This booklet authored by Ray Sumner and published by the Victorian National Parks Service in 1982 interprets the Steiglitz Historic Park, proclaimed in 1979, and covering 655 hectares of land, including parts of the township of Steiglitz and much of the surrounding Steiglitz goldfield. Steiglitz is about 60km west of Melbourne and about half way between Geelong and Ballarat.