Ben Backhaus took a resource that’s all around us on this island – nearly as ubiquitous as the gulls and the geese – and turned it into a business and a life.

Cat Claringbold is a restaurateur, chef, food writer and businesswoman – and in a perfect vocational union she’s also married to pastry-chef Darren Purchese.

Mal MacQueen spent decades in the island’s abundant waters harvesting abalone by hand.

Maree Crawford shares a few stories about the Furneaux Museum’s extensive collection of documents and artefacts.

Mick Grimshaw has served countless roles on the island: farmer, councillor, businessman – but he’s most renowned for his welcome

Mel and Christo are fossickers, the observant people who notice the tiny precious details in the ground under our feet.

Jock Serong has written extensively about the Furneaux Islands, particularly in his trilogy of historical novels, Preservation, The Burning Island and The Settlement.

Siblings Alice (11), Billy (9) and Georgie Youl (7) and their mate Lenny (10) are living every kid’s dream

Jo Youl is the calm point at the eye of the storm, the human connection between the kaleidoscopic elements of island tourism.

Still waters run deep, and Mike Nichols knows more than anyone alive about the creatures and the terrain under the secretive surface of our island waters.

Chris Bowman has spent a lifetime solving the puzzles most of us don’t think about: how does everything get here?

David Williams soaks up wisdom from the library of books he’s assembled, and from the boundless university of wildlife outside his door.

Gail Grace and Gary “Blinky” Blenkhorn are the clearest examples of the idea that in a remote community, you take on the roles that need doing

David Anderson can look back over generations of agriculture on the island, from the early clearing and drainage schemes to the soldier-settlers and the advent of modern, sustainable systems.

Pip Sumbak is a culinary innovator who’s worked in some of the hottest kitchens in the land, but she’s just as happy free diving and foraging on the reefs of the Furneaux Islands.

Richard “Molly” Mollineauxx is more than a stock agent – he’s the crucial hub in a complex network of farmers, suppliers, shippers, insurers and financiers.

Mel Little grew up in a remote paradise - Cape Barren Island. A proud Tasmanian Aboriginal woman, she talks about her love for the Cape Barren Islander community

Tom Youl came from farming, took an unexpected left turn, then a right, then travelled the world and returned to the stunning, historical Quoin Farm near Killiecrankie.

Sir Rupert Clarke is the perfect embodiment of the generational ties that bind island families.

Like so many of us, Damien Newton Brown’s island life began with childhood holidays.But over a lifetime, his love of the island has intensified and taken on a wholly new form

Jonathan Merridew grew up around planes, and they remain his chief fascination and his career.

The wife of Australian landscape master Fred Williams, Lyn Williams shares the fascinating story of how Fred (1927-82) visited the Furneaux and Kent groups in the 1970s and created the most enduring and evocative paintings of our islands that have ever been made.

Celebrity pastry chef Darren Purchese has done it all: he’s worked in the world’s great hotels, at the three-chef’s-hatted Vue de Monde in Melbourne and in the cauldrons of TV food shows.

Jane Grylls is known as The Domestic Scientist. She’s a cook, a writer, stylist.