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The Australian Territory of Norfolk Island comprises Norfolk Island
Norfolk Island
Norfolk Island is a small island in the Pacific Ocean located between Australia, New Zealand and New Caledonia. The island is part of the Commonwealth of Australia, but it enjoys a large degree of self-governance...
and two uninhabited neighboring islands located in the South Pacific Ocean amidst Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
, New Zealand
New Zealand
New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...
and New Caledonia
New Caledonia
New Caledonia is a special collectivity of France located in the southwest Pacific Ocean, east of Australia and about from Metropolitan France. The archipelago, part of the Melanesia subregion, includes the main island of Grande Terre, the Loyalty Islands, the Belep archipelago, the Isle of...
. Norfolk Island is one of Australia's
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
external territories.
The Norfolk Island Pine
Araucaria heterophylla
Araucaria heterophylla is a distinctive conifer, a member of the ancient and now disjointly distributed family Araucariaceae. As its vernacular name Norfolk Island Pine implies, the tree is endemic to Norfolk Island, a small island in the Pacific Ocean between Australia, New Zealand and New...
, a symbol of the island pictured in its flag, is an evergreen
Evergreen
In botany, an evergreen plant is a plant that has leaves in all seasons. This contrasts with deciduous plants, which completely lose their foliage during the winter or dry season.There are many different kinds of evergreen plants, both trees and shrubs...
tree
Tree
A tree is a perennial woody plant. It is most often defined as a woody plant that has many secondary branches supported clear of the ground on a single main stem or trunk with clear apical dominance. A minimum height specification at maturity is cited by some authors, varying from 3 m to...
native to the island.
General reference
- PronunciationInternational Phonetic AlphabetThe International Phonetic Alphabet "The acronym 'IPA' strictly refers [...] to the 'International Phonetic Association'. But it is now such a common practice to use the acronym also to refer to the alphabet itself that resistance seems pedantic...
: - Common English country name: Norfolk IslandNorfolk IslandNorfolk Island is a small island in the Pacific Ocean located between Australia, New Zealand and New Caledonia. The island is part of the Commonwealth of Australia, but it enjoys a large degree of self-governance...
- Official English country name: The Australian Territory of Norfolk Island
- Common endonym(s):
- Official endonym(s):
- Adjectival(s):
- Demonym(s):
- EtymologyEtymologyEtymology is the study of the history of words, their origins, and how their form and meaning have changed over time.For languages with a long written history, etymologists make use of texts in these languages and texts about the languages to gather knowledge about how words were used during...
: Name of Norfolk Island - ISO country codes: NF, NFK, 574
- ISO region codes: See ISO 3166-2:NFISO 3166-2:NFISO 3166-2:NF is the entry for Norfolk Island in ISO 3166-2, part of the ISO 3166 standard published by the International Organization for Standardization , which defines codes for the names of the principal subdivisions of all countries coded in ISO 3166-1.Currently no ISO 3166-2 codes are...
- InternetInternetThe Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks that use the standard Internet protocol suite to serve billions of users worldwide...
country code top-level domainCountry code top-level domainA country code top-level domain is an Internet top-level domain generally used or reserved for a country, a sovereign state, or a dependent territory....
: .nf.nf.nf is the Internet country code top-level domain for Norfolk Island. While there is no rule requiring a local presence to register domains in this TLD, the pricing is significantly higher than most other domains, which has discouraged its use...
Geography of Norfolk Island
- Norfolk Island is: an islandIslandAn island or isle is any piece of sub-continental land that is surrounded by water. Very small islands such as emergent land features on atolls can be called islets, cays or keys. An island in a river or lake may be called an eyot , or holm...
and an external territory of AustraliaAustraliaAustralia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area... - Location:
- Southern HemisphereSouthern HemisphereThe Southern Hemisphere is the part of Earth that lies south of the equator. The word hemisphere literally means 'half ball' or "half sphere"...
and Eastern HemisphereEastern HemisphereThe Eastern Hemisphere, also Eastern hemisphere or eastern hemisphere, is a geographical term for the half of the Earth that is east of the Prime Meridian and west of 180° longitude. It is also used to refer to Europe, Asia, Africa, and Australasia, vis-à-vis the Western Hemisphere, which includes...
- Pacific OceanPacific OceanThe Pacific Ocean is the largest of the Earth's oceanic divisions. It extends from the Arctic in the north to the Southern Ocean in the south, bounded by Asia and Australia in the west, and the Americas in the east.At 165.2 million square kilometres in area, this largest division of the World...
- South Pacific
- OceaniaOceaniaOceania is a region centered on the islands of the tropical Pacific Ocean. Conceptions of what constitutes Oceania range from the coral atolls and volcanic islands of the South Pacific to the entire insular region between Asia and the Americas, including Australasia and the Malay Archipelago...
- AustralasiaAustralasiaAustralasia is a region of Oceania comprising Australia, New Zealand, the island of New Guinea, and neighbouring islands in the Pacific Ocean. The term was coined by Charles de Brosses in Histoire des navigations aux terres australes...
- Australasia
- Oceania
- South Pacific
- Pacific Ocean
- Time zoneTime zoneA time zone is a region on Earth that has a uniform standard time for legal, commercial, and social purposes. In order for the same clock time to always correspond to the same portion of the day as the Earth rotates , different places on the Earth need to have different clock times...
: UTC+11:30UTC+11:30UTC+11:30 is an identifier for a +11:30 hour time offset from UTC. This time is used in:-Historical:On November 2, 1868, New Zealand officially adopted a standard time to be observed nationally, and was perhaps the first country to do so. It was based on the longitude 172° 30' East of Greenwich,... - Extreme points of Norfolk Island
- High: Mount BatesMount BatesMount Bates is the highest point of Norfolk Island, an external territory of Australia, at 319 metres above sea level....
319 m (1,047 ft) - Low: South Pacific Ocean 0 m
- High: Mount Bates
- Land boundaries: none
- Coastline: South Pacific Ocean 32 km
- Southern Hemisphere
- Population of Norfolk Island:
- Area of Norfolk Island: 34 km2
- Atlas of Norfolk Island
Environment of Norfolk Island
- Climate of Norfolk Island
- Environmental issues in Norfolk Island
- Ecoregions in Norfolk Island
- Renewable energy in Norfolk Island
- Geology of Norfolk Island
- Protected areas of Norfolk Island
- Biosphere reserves in Norfolk Island
- National parks of Norfolk Island
- Wildlife of Norfolk Island
- Flora of Norfolk Island
- Fauna of Norfolk Island
- Birds of Norfolk Island
- Mammals of Norfolk Island
Natural geographic features of Norfolk Island
- Fjords of Norfolk Island
- Glaciers of Norfolk Island
- Islands of Norfolk Island
- Lakes of Norfolk Island
- Mountains of Norfolk Island
- Volcanoes in Norfolk Island
- Rivers of Norfolk Island
- Waterfalls of Norfolk Island
- Valleys of Norfolk Island
- World Heritage Sites in Norfolk Island: None
Ecoregions of Norfolk Island
Municipalities of Norfolk Island
- Capital of Norfolk Island: Kingston
- Cities of Norfolk Island
Government and politics of Norfolk Island
- Main article: Government of Norfolk Island and Politics of Norfolk IslandPolitics of Norfolk IslandPolitics of Norfolk Island takes place in a framework of a parliamentary representative democratic entity. Norfolk Island is the only non-mainland Australian territory to have achieved self-governance...
- Form of governmentForm of governmentA form of government, or form of state governance, refers to the set of political institutions by which a government of a state is organized. Synonyms include "regime type" and "system of government".-Empirical and conceptual problems:...
: - Capital of Norfolk Island: Kingston
- Elections in Norfolk Island
- (specific elections)
- Political parties in Norfolk Island
- Political scandals of Norfolk Island
- Taxation in Norfolk Island
Executive branch of the government of Norfolk Island
- Head of stateHead of StateA head of state is the individual that serves as the chief public representative of a monarchy, republic, federation, commonwealth or other kind of state. His or her role generally includes legitimizing the state and exercising the political powers, functions, and duties granted to the head of...
: Administrator of Norfolk Island appointed by and responsible to the Governor-General of AustraliaGovernor-General of AustraliaThe Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia is the representative in Australia at federal/national level of the Australian monarch . He or she exercises the supreme executive power of the Commonwealth... - Head of governmentHead of governmentHead of government is the chief officer of the executive branch of a government, often presiding over a cabinet. In a parliamentary system, the head of government is often styled prime minister, chief minister, premier, etc...
: Chief Minister of Norfolk Island, - Cabinet of Norfolk Island
Legislative branch of the government of Norfolk Island
- Parliament of Norfolk Island: Norfolk Legislative AssemblyNorfolk Legislative AssemblyThe Norfolk Legislative Assembly is the prime legislative body of Norfolk Island. Formed after the Norfolk Island Act 1979 was passed in the Australian parliament, its first members were elected on the tenth of August 1979 . The current assembly is the 13th, and was elected on 17 March 2010 ...
Judicial branch of the government of Norfolk Island
- Supreme Court of Norfolk IslandSupreme Court of Norfolk IslandThe Supreme Court of Norfolk Island hears certain cases in the Australian territory of Norfolk Island. It is the superior Court of Norfolk Island...
Foreign relations of Norfolk Island
- Diplomatic missions in Norfolk Island
- Diplomatic missions of Norfolk Island
International organisation membership
The Australian Territory of Norfolk Island is a member of:- Universal Postal UnionUniversal Postal UnionThe Universal Postal Union is an international organization that coordinates postal policies among member nations, in addition to the worldwide postal system. The UPU contains four bodies consisting of the Congress, the Council of Administration , the Postal Operations Council and the...
(UPU)
Law and order in Norfolk Island
- Capital punishment in Norfolk Island
- Constitution of Norfolk Island
- Crime in Norfolk Island
- Human rights in Norfolk Island
- LGBT rights in Norfolk Island
- Freedom of religion in Norfolk Island
- Law enforcement in Norfolk Island
Military of Norfolk Island
- Command
- Commander-in-chiefCommander-in-ChiefA commander-in-chief is the commander of a nation's military forces or significant element of those forces. In the latter case, the force element may be defined as those forces within a particular region or those forces which are associated by function. As a practical term it refers to the military...
:- Ministry of Defence of Norfolk Island
- Commander-in-chief
- Forces
- Army of Norfolk Island
- Navy of Norfolk Island
- Air Force of Norfolk Island
- Special forces of Norfolk Island
- Military history of Norfolk Island
- Military ranks of Norfolk Island
History of Norfolk Island
- Main article: History of Norfolk IslandHistory of Norfolk IslandThe history of Norfolk Island dates back to the fourteenth or fifteenth century when it was settled by Polynesian seafarers.-Early history:Norfolk Island was first settled by East Polynesian seafarers either from the Kermadec Islands north of New Zealand or from the North Island of New Zealand...
, Timeline of the history of Norfolk Island, and Current events of Norfolk Island
- Economic history of Norfolk Island
- Military history of Norfolk Island
Culture of Norfolk Island
- Architecture of Norfolk Island
- Cuisine of Norfolk Island
- Ethnic minorities in Norfolk Island
- Festivals in Norfolk Island
- Humor in Norfolk Island
- Languages of Norfolk IslandLanguages of Norfolk IslandThere are two official languages of Norfolk Island, English and Norfuk. English, due to the influence of Great Britain and Australia, the two colonial powers who administered Norfolk Island, is the dominant language of the pair...
- Media in Norfolk Island
- National symbols of Norfolk Island
- Coat of arms of Norfolk IslandCoat of arms of Norfolk IslandThe coat of arms of Norfolk Island is the official symbol of the island and external Australian territory of Norfolk Island. It was granted by a Royal Warrant of HM Queen Elizabeth II on 20 October 1980....
- Flag of Norfolk IslandFlag of Norfolk IslandThe flag of Norfolk Island was adopted on 17 January 1980. It depicts the Norfolk Island Pine in a central white stipe....
- National anthem of Norfolk IslandNational anthem of Norfolk IslandThere are two anthems of Norfolk Island:* God Save the Queen, the official anthem* Pitcairn Anthem, the unofficial anthem...
- Coat of arms of Norfolk Island
- People of Norfolk Island
- Prostitution in Norfolk Island
- Public holidays in Norfolk IslandPublic holidays in Norfolk IslandThis is a list of public holidays in Norfolk Island...
- Records of Norfolk Island
- Religion in Norfolk Island
- Christianity in Norfolk Island
- Islam in Norfolk IslandIslam in Norfolk IslandMuslims were among the earliest settlers of Norfolk Island while the island was used as a British penal colony in the early 19th century. They arrived from 1796, having been employed on British ships. They left following the closure of the penal colony and moved to Tasmania...
- World Heritage Sites in Norfolk Island: None
Art in Norfolk Island
- Art in Norfolk Island
- Cinema of Norfolk Island
- Literature of Norfolk Island
- Music of Norfolk Island
- Television in Norfolk Island
- Theatre in Norfolk Island
Sports in Norfolk Island
- Football in Norfolk Island
- Norfolk Island at the Olympics
Economy and infrastructure of Norfolk Island
- Agriculture in Norfolk Island
- Banking in Norfolk Island
- National Bank of Norfolk Island
- Communications in Norfolk Island
- Internet in Norfolk Island
- Companies of Norfolk Island
- Currency of Norfolk IslandCurrencyIn economics, currency refers to a generally accepted medium of exchange. These are usually the coins and banknotes of a particular government, which comprise the physical aspects of a nation's money supply...
: DollarAustralian dollarThe Australian dollar is the currency of the Commonwealth of Australia, including Christmas Island, Cocos Islands, and Norfolk Island, as well as the independent Pacific Island states of Kiribati, Nauru and Tuvalu...
- ISO 4217ISO 4217ISO 4217 is a standard published by the International Standards Organization, which delineates currency designators, country codes , and references to minor units in three tables:* Table A.1 – Current currency & funds code list...
: AUDAudAud might refer to*Australian dollar *Ambedkar University, Delhi *American University in Dubai *Doctor of Audiology *Auðr, the son of Nótt and Naglfari in Norse mythology...
- ISO 4217
- Economic history of Norfolk Island
- Energy in Norfolk Island
- Energy policy of Norfolk Island
- Oil industry in Norfolk Island
- Mining in Norfolk Island
- Tourism in Norfolk Island
- Transport in Norfolk Island
- Norfolk Island Stock Exchange
Infrastructure of Norfolk Island
- Health care in Norfolk Island
- Transportation in Norfolk Island
- Airports in Norfolk Island
- Rail transport in Norfolk Island
- Roads in Norfolk Island
- Water supply and sanitation in Norfolk Island
- Television in Norfolk IslandNorfolk TVNorfolk TV is a television channel on Norfolk Island broadcasting information and news about the island, children's shows in the morning and some sitcoms in the afternoon. It is the only terrestrial television channel native on Norfolk Island, the Island is also served by satellite television from...
See also
- Index of Norfolk Island-related articles
- List of international rankings
- List of Norfolk Island-related topics
- Outline of Australia
- Outline of geographyOutline of geographyThe following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to geography:Geography – science that studies the lands, features, inhabitants, and phenomena of Earth.- Geography is :...
- Outline of OceaniaOutline of OceaniaOceania is a geographical, and often geopolitical, region consisting of numerous lands—mostly islands in the Pacific Ocean and vicinity. The term is also sometimes used to denote a continent comprising Australia and proximate Pacific islands,....