Sweers Island History Annotations
11. During his 1642 voyage around Tasmania, Tasman did name an island group in Tasmania as 'Sweers Eylanden' after Cornelius Sweers, one of the Councillors who had authorised his expedition.

12. Macknight C.C., 1976. The voyages to Marege: Macassan trepangers in northern Australla' MUP, pp. 175.

13. As suggested, for example, in Captain Pennefather's report in 1880.

14. Robert (1973) p.45

15. Robert Brown's journal as transcribed from a microfilm copy held by the National Herbarium in Canberra