Norfolk Island
Norfolk Island
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Norfolk Island, Australia
Population: 1900
Administration: Administrator, appointed by the Australian Government, and a Legislative Assembly of Nine members.
Norfolk Island, an Australian external territory since 1913, lies 1400 km east of Australia in the Pacific Ocean. A very green island in a sea of blue.
Norfolk Island Background
by Ian Hamilton McCowan
 Norfolk Island is a small fertile volcanic island lying in the pacific Ocean North East of Sydney and North of Auckland with a couple smaller islands the further of which is 5 miles offshore.
The Island was discovered by Captain Cook in 1774 and named, as Cook had promised, after the 9th Duchess of Norfolk.
The population is in part from the descendants of The Mutiny of The Bounty and further settlers from Australia, New Zealand & Britain.
Left: The old Government House and prison remains from the days of the penal colony.
The main income comes from Tourists who are encouraged by the duty free shopping as well as the great attraction of the countryside - some 5 by 8 miles in extent.
There were three distinct settlements of Norfolk Island ...
The first being 26 years of a convict settlement to 1814
The second being another convict settlement of 36 years until 1855.
The third was the settling of the 194 'Mutineers' descendants in 1856 who came from Pitcairn Island. These latter brought their individual life style and language, a mixture of medieval English & Tahitian.
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