Jane Robertson has lived in Ōtoromiro Governors Bay, at the head of Whakaraupō Lyttelton Harbour, for 20 years. She has a doctorate in education, has taught history and English, and has worked as a teacher-educator, a researcher in the field of higher education, and an editor and local history researcher/writer. Her local history, Head of the Harbour, about Governors Bay, Ōhinetahi, Allandale and Teddington, was published in 2016.