 “Sealers,” and their Aboriginal partners, are reported living, intermittently, on the island from the 1820s.When Robinson visited the island in November 1830, he found there George Robinson (no relation) and James Everett and their Aboriginal “wives.” Captain Pasco of the survey vessel "Vansittart" visited in 1842 and found John Anderson (alias “Abyssinia Jack”) in residence with his family.When the "Isabella" of Leith was wrecked on the coast of Flinders Island in 1844, thirteen of the passengers and crew reached Anderson Island in a long boat where they were given shelter by the sealers.