Includes index.
Tourist guide, describing sights and activities available to visitors to King Island. Also discusses the history, communications, community life, industry, flora and fauna of the island. Includes a chapter on other islands of southwest Bass Strait, maps charts, a bibliography and an index.
King Island lies on the western border of Bass Strait only 200km and an hour's flight from Melbourne, yet a world apart. Picturesque, peaceful, with a landscape of rolling green fields, splendid cattle, flowering heathland, long white beaches, craggy headlands and five lighthouses! Islanders are friendly people with many varied interest community groups and clubs for both outdoor and indoor sports. This is a getaway island for golfers and fishermen, historians and hunters, beach and bushwalkers, bird watchers, photographers and private pilots, divers and horse riders - for relaxing or for filling every moment with activity.

Bibliography: p. 147-149.