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Mount Bates (highest point of Norfolk Island)
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By: kkeps
@ 2011-03-22 18:55:42
Mount Bates is the highest point of Norfolk Island, an external territory of Australia, at 319 metres (1,047 ft) above sea level.]]>

Mount Bates (highest point of Norfolk Island)
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By: kkeps
@ 2011-03-22 18:55:42
Mount Bates is the highest point of Norfolk Island, an external territory of Australia, at 319 metres (1,047 ft) above sea level.]]> http://virtualglobetrotting.com/map/mount-bates-highest-point-of-norfolk-island/ http://virtualglobetrotting.com/map/mount-bates-highest-point-of-norfolk-island/ Tue, 22 Mar 2011 18:55:42 -0700 http://virtualglobetrotting.com/map/mount-bates-highest-point-of-norfolk-island/ -29.01833300 167.93555600

Norfolk Legislative Assembly
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By: muzi
@ 2007-11-25 10:02:11
Norfolk Legislative Assembly, Kingston]]>

Norfolk Legislative Assembly
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By: muzi
@ 2007-11-25 10:02:11
Norfolk Legislative Assembly, Kingston]]> http://virtualglobetrotting.com/map/norfolk-legislative-assembly/ http://virtualglobetrotting.com/map/norfolk-legislative-assembly/ Sun, 25 Nov 2007 10:02:11 -0800 http://virtualglobetrotting.com/map/norfolk-legislative-assembly/ -29.05570500 167.96079800

Government House, Kingston
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By: muzi
@ 2007-11-25 09:58:37
Government House, Kingston is the Official Residence of the Administrator of Norfolk Island in Kingston]]>

Government House, Kingston
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By: muzi
@ 2007-11-25 09:58:37
Government House, Kingston is the Official Residence of the Administrator of Norfolk Island in Kingston]]> http://virtualglobetrotting.com/map/government-house-kingston/ http://virtualglobetrotting.com/map/government-house-kingston/ Sun, 25 Nov 2007 09:58:37 -0800 http://virtualglobetrotting.com/map/government-house-kingston/ -29.05731900 167.96187000

Norfolk Island Airport (NLK / YSNF)
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By: cmike77
@ 2006-09-26 16:07:23
The airstrip was built during World War II, as a southern base to repel the Japanese taking over the Pacific Ocean. As Norfolk Island did not have enough flat ground, several bulldozers were used to knock the tops off of several hills, and fill in the valleys between them. Steel mesh was then used to make a solid surface.]]>

Norfolk Island Airport (NLK / YSNF)
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By: cmike77
@ 2006-09-26 16:07:23
The airstrip was built during World War II, as a southern base to repel the Japanese taking over the Pacific Ocean. As Norfolk Island did not have enough flat ground, several bulldozers were used to knock the tops off of several hills, and fill in the valleys between them. Steel mesh was then used to make a solid surface.]]> http://virtualglobetrotting.com/map/norfolk-island-airport-nlk-ysnf/ http://virtualglobetrotting.com/map/norfolk-island-airport-nlk-ysnf/ Tue, 26 Sep 2006 16:07:23 -0700 http://virtualglobetrotting.com/map/norfolk-island-airport-nlk-ysnf/ -29.04135100 167.94015500

Norfolk Island
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By: AlbinoFlea
@ 2006-01-18 21:11:55
Norfolk Island is a volcanic South Pacific Island that lies between Australia, New Zealand and New Caledonia at 29'02º S and 167'56º E. It is approximately 600 miles from Auckland, 1000 miles from Sydney, 900 miles from Brisbane and 500 miles from New Caledonia.

Norfolk is lush and semi-tropical and the home of the world-famous Norfolk Island Pine (Araucaria heterophylla). The pine tree is represented in our flag and shapes the outline of nearly every island vista.

There is evidence of Polynesian habitation of Norfolk some 600 years ago. European discovery occurred on the 10th of October 1774 by Captain James Cook. Norfolk was soon thereafter settled as a British prison and was to become known as the Hell in the Pacific to the convicts who were transported to the island.

Abandoned as a penal colony in 1855, Norfolk Island became the new home of the Pitcairn Islanders, descendants all of the Mutineers of the Bounty. The Mutineers and their families created a community which eventually became too big for tiny Pitcairn Island. Her Majesty Queen Victoria, for whom the Islanders held the greatest allegiance, offered them Norfolk Island as their own and they relocated in their entirety in 1856.

A total of 193 persons left Pitcairn for Norfolk and 194 arrived, Reuben Christian, Fletcher's great-grandson, being born on the way. The Pitcairn surnames of Adams, Buffett, Christian, Evans, McCoy, Nobbs and Quintal still dominate the Norfolk Island telephone book.

Norfolk Island today is a tourists' destination with a robust economy and a bright future. We are proud of our educational system and our commitment to our young people. It was that commitment which brought us to introduce the Internet to the Island in 1998. And now we have one of the highest per capita computer ownership ratios in the southwest Pacific - and two Internet Service Providers.]]>

Norfolk Island
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By: AlbinoFlea
@ 2006-01-18 21:11:55
Norfolk Island is a volcanic South Pacific Island that lies between Australia, New Zealand and New Caledonia at 29'02º S and 167'56º E. It is approximately 600 miles from Auckland, 1000 miles from Sydney, 900 miles from Brisbane and 500 miles from New Caledonia.

Norfolk is lush and semi-tropical and the home of the world-famous Norfolk Island Pine (Araucaria heterophylla). The pine tree is represented in our flag and shapes the outline of nearly every island vista.

There is evidence of Polynesian habitation of Norfolk some 600 years ago. European discovery occurred on the 10th of October 1774 by Captain James Cook. Norfolk was soon thereafter settled as a British prison and was to become known as the Hell in the Pacific to the convicts who were transported to the island.

Abandoned as a penal colony in 1855, Norfolk Island became the new home of the Pitcairn Islanders, descendants all of the Mutineers of the Bounty. The Mutineers and their families created a community which eventually became too big for tiny Pitcairn Island. Her Majesty Queen Victoria, for whom the Islanders held the greatest allegiance, offered them Norfolk Island as their own and they relocated in their entirety in 1856.

A total of 193 persons left Pitcairn for Norfolk and 194 arrived, Reuben Christian, Fletcher's great-grandson, being born on the way. The Pitcairn surnames of Adams, Buffett, Christian, Evans, McCoy, Nobbs and Quintal still dominate the Norfolk Island telephone book.

Norfolk Island today is a tourists' destination with a robust economy and a bright future. We are proud of our educational system and our commitment to our young people. It was that commitment which brought us to introduce the Internet to the Island in 1998. And now we have one of the highest per capita computer ownership ratios in the southwest Pacific - and two Internet Service Providers.]]> http://virtualglobetrotting.com/map/norfolk-island/ http://virtualglobetrotting.com/map/norfolk-island/ Wed, 18 Jan 2006 21:11:55 -0800 http://virtualglobetrotting.com/map/norfolk-island/ -29.02930600 167.95194600