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Norfolk Island has two museum organisations: The Norfolk Island Museum which is spread across five locations, including: No. 10 Quality Row - a Georgian period house; Pier Store - museum of the Bounty Mutineers and Pitcairn Island; Sirius Museum - maritime museum dedicated to HMS Sirius; Commissariat Store - archaeological displays
In 1834, the first local inn was created by Polly Wood, a widow who opened an "Ordinary" in her log cabin where settlers could stay the night and get a warm meal. By the 1870s, Benjamin Wilkes had opened the famous Mons Hotel, and the Peaks of Otter was home to over 20 families, a school, a church, and the hotel.
Norfolk Island (/ ˈ n ɔːr f ə k / NOR-fək, locally / ˈ n ɔːr f oʊ k / NOR-fohk; [9] Norfuk: Norf'k Ailen [10]) is an external territory of Australia located in the Pacific Ocean between New Zealand and New Caledonia, approximately 1,412 km (877 mi; 762 nmi) east of Australia's Evans Head and about 900 km (560 mi; 490 nmi) from Lord Howe Island.
Norfolk Island Museum is a museum organisation on Norfolk Island, an external territory of Australia in the southern Pacific Ocean. The museum comprises five sites and collections that include archaeological, archival and social history objects that reflect subsequent waves of forced migration to the island.
There are several settlements on Norfolk Island; they are all either towns or hamlets. There are no cities on Norfolk Island. Kingston (official capital) Anson Bay; Bumboras; Burnt Pine (largest town, with airport nearby) Cascade; Longridge; Middlegate; Rocky Point; Steeles Point
Travel between Norfolk Island and mainland Australia became domestic travel on 1 July 2016. For the 2016 Australian federal election, 328 people on Norfolk Island voted in the ACT electorate of Canberra, out of 117,248 total votes. Since 2018, Norfolk Island is covered by the electorate of Bean.
The park’s area includes the Mount Pitt section on the namesake Norfolk Island with an area of 4.60 km 2 (1.78 sq mi) / 460 ha (1,100 acres), as well as the neighbouring Phillip Island encompassing 1.90 km 2 (0.73 sq mi) / 190 ha (470 acres), [1] and the much smaller Nepean Island. The Norfolk Island group is a Commonwealth of Australia ...
Gavin Maxwell FRSL FZS FRGS (15 July 1914 – 7 September 1969) was a Scottish naturalist and author, best known for his non-fiction writing and his work with otters.He became most famous for Ring of Bright Water (1960) and its sequels, which described his experiences raising Iraqi and West African otters on the west coast of Scotland.