Visitors to Norfolk Island cannot help but be impressed by the broad variety of trees found growing on this small island. In addition to the local native trees, trees from all over the world have been introduced to Norfolk. These […]
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As you travel on foot or by car around Norfolk Island the evidence of our historic past is clearly on display. From fully restored buildings in World Heritage Listed Kingston to rubble remains in a paddock or back garden, our […]
It would be any museum curator’s nightmare: an 18th century 1.7 ton anchor hanging mid-air, half in half out of the doorway of a World Heritage listed building. The anchor head is wider than the doorway it has to travel […]
From tall tree ferns to the tiny filmy ferns, Norfolk Island has a diverse range of ferns and fern allies. There are 44 indigenous taxa on the island, representing 24 percent of all native plants found on the island. Seven […]
Amongst the Pitcairners’ graves in the Norfolk Island cemetery lies Isaac Christian, a grandson of Fletcher Christian. The story of his death in a whaling accident in 1877 vividly and tragically illustrates the dangers faced by the Pitcairn Islander men […]
In March 1788 a small party of convicts and marines under Lt Phillip Gidley King was sent from Sydney Cove to settle Norfolk Island. HMT Supply sailed around the island for nearly a week, looking for a landing place. King was […]
Allan Cunningham, botanist and explorer, arrived in Sydney as ‘government botanist’ in 1816, only 28 years after establishment of the fledgling British colony in New South Wales and on Norfolk Island. Cunningham is perhaps best known as an explorer, having […]
“In the patches of brush that bound the line of road which stretches from N. to south across the Island, I recognized among many plants quite new to me, several species indigenous also to New Zealand, and everywhere the golden […]
Maps are one of the things that almost all of us can relate to. We all have some relationship with somewhere on earth, and how that place has changed over time seems to interest many of us. Antique maps I find […]
Start at the beginning, they say. I’d add that any adventurer worth their salt-encrusted kayak should also finish at the beginning. Because, while there are plenty of feats in the world of exploration – summit the peak, touch the depths, […]
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