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Early Australian bushrangers - Australia's Culture PortalMcFarlane & Erskine, Gold escort attacked by bushrangers, 187-, print: lithograph. Image courtesy of the National Library of Australia: nla.pic-an8420450. Black Caesar escaped into the bush in 1790 with a musket where he later joined five or six other es...
In 1788, the eleven ships of the First Fleet landed their 'cargo' of around 780 British convicts at Botany Bay in New South Wales. From 1788 to 1823, the Colony of New South Wales was officially a penal colony comprised mainly of convicts, marines and th...
World Heritage-listed Fraser Island. However, Australia is actually made up of more than 8,000 islands, including the island state of Tasmania. Norfolk Island is located far off the east coast of Australia. ...
In the early days of the Australian colonies, convict ballads and songs became the foundation of Australia's later day folk music and its first original compositions. Bush songs, ballads and music influenced and defined the folk music of the 1950s. Indi...
In 1788 the First Fleet landed at Camp Cove in Port Jackson with the 'cargo' of convicts which helped establish the penal colony of New South Wales. One in five of the convicts to arrive in the penal colony (1788-1823) was female and they made up the lar...
J. C. Armytage, Return of Burke and Wills to Coopers Creek, engraving, in Australia by Edwin Carton Booth, opp. Image courtesy of the National Library of Australia. Explorers set out to discover rivers and land suitable for agriculture as well as to surv...
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Information about Norfolk Island including its constitutional status and governmental arrangements, as well as information for those wanting to travel to the Island.
Norfolk Island - The Web Site (more info)
This site has comprehensive information on Norfolk Island, which is situated 1700 kilometres north-east of Sydney. The site has details of the island's history, colonisation, settlements, government and a virtual tour.
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Norfolk Island Cenotaph (website War Memorials in Australia )Ü " B. C. " YOUNG Ü " STEELE. Ü DIED ON ACTIVE SERVICE. HENRY BUFFETT NEVILLE BUFFETT ALLEN CHRISTIAN TAYLOR MENZIES ADRIAN NOBBS LAURIE QUINTAL EDWARD QUINTAL WALTER STARR FRANCIS YAGER RONALD MC COY (KOREA)....
Soon after, Norfolk Island adopted its own distinctive flag. Central to the flag is a silhouette of one of Norfolk Island's most famous symbols - the Norfolk Island Pine tree - which was first used on Norfolk Island's great seal, granted in 1856. ÔÇó Nor...
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Until the late 1700s Norfolk Island was covered in dense forests and the Green Parrot was probably widely distributed across the island. The most extensive area of native habitat remaining on Norfolk Island is within NINP, which encompasses 465 ha (12%) ...
The Norfolk Island Green Parrot should now be considered a full species Cyanoramphus cookii and as such is one of the rarest and most endangered bird species in Australia. It is only found on Norfolk Island (3825 ha) where it is largely restricted to nat...
The Green Parrot is restricted to Norfolk Island. . At the time of settlement Green Parrots were abundant, with convicts deployed to protect planted corn crops from parrots with sticks (P. Stevenson pers.comm.) Based on an estimated territory size of 20 ...
Norfolk Island is an island in the Pacific Ocean located between Australia, New Zealand and New Caledonia, and is one of Australia's external territories. The Norfolk Island pine, also pictured in the flag, is a very striking evergreen tree endemic to th...
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