Port Elliot and Goolwa — a short history By Susan Marsden.
Part 1 ‘Summary of history’, in Edwin Noack, Susan Marsden and John Dallwitz, Port Elliot and Goolwa Heritage Study, Ed Noack and Associates in association with Heritage Investigations, and Port Elliot and Goolwa Heritage Study Steering Committee, Adelaide 1981. The author acknowledges and thanks her report co-authors John Dallwitz and Ed Noack and the Department of Environment and Heritage for permission to reproduce this history.

The Discovery and Settlement of the Fleurieu Peninsula and the Angas/Bremer Region 1802–1861 By Rob Linn.
This essay first appeared in the Journal of the Historical Society of South Australia, no.14, 1986, pp.51-66.