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	Norfolk Island
		Norfolk Island is eleven and a half hours ahead of GMT and does not adopt a "summertime".
		Norfolk Island is situated approximately 1000 kilometers east of the Australian coast, 1670kms ENE of Sydney, 1065kms NNW of Auckland and 772kms SE of Noumea.
		Kingston is where the first convict settlement landed and the construction of buildings and roads began.
	www.xs4all.nl /~aobt/siteabori/norfolk_island.htm (2570 words)

	Norfolk Island - The Second Settlement
		During Norfolk Island's second settlement (between 1825 and 1855) it was indeed the Hell of the Pacific; a place dominated by death and despair.
		Conditions in the gaol were appalling; a large percentage of the convicts were sentenced to remain in heavy chains for the terms of their natural lives; most convicts were chained during the day.
		Stone was quarried from Nepean Island, a rock close to shore, and coral rubble was rendered with lime and sand; thus most walls were formed, while Norfolk Pine was used for joinery and roofs.
	www.pitcairners.org /settlements2.html (613 words)

	Norfolk Island presented in Travelling section
		Norfolk Island was essentially uninhabited up until Cook discovered the Island in 1774.
		Norfolk Island was to remain uninhabited for another 11 years.
		Norfolk Island became a Territory under the authority of the Commonwealth of Australia in 1914.
	www.newsfinder.org /site/comments/norfolk_island (1095 words)

	Time Line - History and Culture - Norfolk Island
		Norfolk Island is rich in History and Culture from Captain Cook's discovery in 1774 to todays modern times, as well as in the preceeding centuries and milleniums as you can see from this time line.
		Sloop Norfolk, 25 tonnes, built on Norfolk from Norfolk Pine, sailed from Sydney Cove under Lieutenant Matthew Flinders and crew of 8 on exploratory voyage.
		The Norfolk Island Act (1979), a Commonwealth Act of Parliament, passed into law, providing for the establishment of a Norfolk Island Legislative Assembly to assume responsibility for a wide range of functions previously handled by a Commonwealth-appointed Administrator, with assistance from a locally elected Advisory Council.
	www.norfolkisland.com.au /history_and_culture/time_line.cfm (1505 words)

	Travel guide for Norfolk Island - Hostels, things to do, nightlife, tips, etc (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		In 1856 it was settled by former inhabitants of the largest of the Pitcairn Islands.
		The official language of Norfolk Island is English and all the islanders speak it.
		Norfolk Island, unsurprisingly, is famous for its seafood, which is generally caught fresh by most of the restaurants on the island.
	www.paganel.eu /norfolk_island/index.html (2013 words)

	Kingston - World Travel Guide (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Kingston (New York), in the Hudson Valley in New York one of the United States of America.
		Kingston (New Zealand), at the south end of Lake Wakatipu and down the road, and the lake, from Queenstown, Otago in the South Island of New Zealand.
		Kingston (Washington), on the Kitsap Peninsula in Washington one of the United States of America.
	www.world-travel-guide.net /index.php?title=Kingston (88 words)

	Australian Islands - Stories from Australia's Culture and Recreation Portal
		Norfolk Island is located far off the east coast of Australia.
		The island is the exposed crest of the enormous Macquarie Ridge and is the only place on earth where rocks from the earth's mantle (6 kilometres below the ocean floor) are being actively exposed above sea level.
		Rottnest Island was discovered in 1696 by Willem de Vlamingh, a Dutch explorer, who named the island Rat's Nest due to the many large rats that he believed inhabited the island.
	www.acn.net.au /articles/islands (1531 words)

	Norfolk Island - Kingston
		Kingston is the township founded on Norfolk by the First Settlers.
		Kingston from Flagstaff Hill - in this photograph the walls of the gaol and prisoner's barracks are again at centre-left.
		Kingston from the Queen Elizabeth Lookout - in the foreground are the Old Military Barracks.
	www.pitcairners.org /vt_kingston.html (198 words)

	Norfolk Island travel guide - Wikitravel
		Norfolk Island is an island in the South Pacific Ocean, an Australian territory.
		Norfolk Island was a penal colony for the British colony of New South Wales during the periods 1788–1814 and 1825–1855.
		Norfolk Island is not subject to Australian taxation.
	wikitravel.org /en/Norfolk_Island (2074 words)

	Travel guide for Kingston (Norfolk Island) - Hostels, things to do, nightlife, tips, etc (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Kingston is the old administrative centre on Norfolk Island.
		Kingston is an easy drive from Burnt Pine (less than 5 minutes) and approximately 10 minutes from the other side of the island.
		The major attraction of Kingston is the ruins, predominantly dating from the penal settlement and often functioning as semi-museums with plaques giving a brief explanation of what the building was used for.
	www.paganel.eu /kingston_norfolk_island_/index.html (692 words)

	Complete Latent Print Examination
		"Norfolk Island lost its innocence when she was killed," says Ken Christian, 52, the great-great-great-great-great-grandson of mutiny leader Fletcher Christian.
		Because everyone who travels to Norfolk Island must fill out an arrival card and go through passport control, authorities have the names of all 2,771 men, women and children who were on the island that day.
		If police don't find a match on Norfolk Island, they say they will track down all the visitors to the island on the day of the slaying and request their prints as well.
	www.clpex.com /Articles/Newz/2002/2002-08-30.htm (2119 words)

	Norfolk Island, S.P. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Norfolk Island was discovered by Captain James Cook on October 10, 1774, who claimed it for the English crown and gave it its name.
		The island was not permanently inhabited until March 6, 1788, when Lt. Philip King founded the small settlement of Kingston and established a British penal colony.
		Norfolk Island is everything they say it is. Sun, sea, surf, sand, cows, geese and just a few extremely friendly people.
	www.wolfmedia.ca /gwolf/files/norfolk.html (1345 words)

	Norfolk Island - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.tamu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		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.
		Norfolk Island was now further cut off from Sydney which, with the arrival of the Second Fleet with its cargo of sick and abused convicts, had more pressing problems to contend with.
		In 1920 the Mission was relocated from the island to the Solomon Islands to be closer to its target population.
	en.wikipedia.org.cob-web.org:8888 /wiki/Norfolk_Island (4951 words)

	Norfolk Island
		Hazzard, Margaret, Convicts and Commandants of Norfolk Island 1788-1855, Margaret Hazzard, Norfolk Island, 1978.
		Nobbs, Raymond, George Hunn Nobbs 1799 – 1884 Chaplain on Pitcairn and Norfolk Island, The Pitcairn Descendants Society, Norfolk Island, 1984.
		Norfolk Island Census of Population and Housing 30 June 1986, Administration of Norfolk Island, Norfolk Island, 1986.
	www.zades.com.au /susiez/norfolk.html (1326 words)

	Kingston Cottages Norfolk Island (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Kingston Cottages consists of Seabury House, a 3 bedroom fully restored traditional Island style home and 2 self contained one bedroom cottages.
		Norfolk Island is about 2.5 hours flying time from Sydney and 2 hours from Brisbane on Norfolk Jet Express.
		Kingston Cottages is situated approximately 10 minutes drive from the Norfolk Island airport.
	www.needtoescape.com /FindAccom/Hotel.aspx/Norfolk-Island/Kingston-Cottages/P/2848 (424 words)

	Norfolk Island Travel
		Norfolk Island is in Oceania, island in the South Pacific Ocean, east of Australia.
		The official language of Norfolk Island is English.
		Three vertical bands of green (hoist side), white, and green with a large green Norfolk Island pine tree centred in the slightly wider white band.
	wwp.greenwichmeantime.co.uk /time-zone/pacific/norfolk-island/travel.htm (169 words)

	Kingston, Norfolk Island - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Kingston is the capital of the Australian South Pacific Territory of Norfolk Island.
		WikiMapia has one or more wiki satellite maps of Kingston.
		This article about a place in Oceania is a stub.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kingston,_Norfolk_Island (127 words)

	Norfolk Island Historic Walks & Drives : discovernorfolkisland.com
		Norfolk Island has a coulourful history tainted with an unimagineable legacy of cruelty and bloodshed.
		Kingston is where the frist convict settlement landed and the construction of buildings and roads began.
		The walls of the infamous pentagonal prison and its equally repugnant hospital still stand, as do those of the ghastly Crankmill (now roof-less), under whose floor, it is rumoured, are buried hundreds of artifacts awaiting disinterment.
	www.discovernorfolkisland.com /things/historic.html (978 words)

	SICRI- Small Island Cultures Research Initiative
		Key to SICRI's activities is the principle that external researchers should develop their projects in consultation with island communities and should reciprocate such co-operation with appropriate assistance and facilitation of local cultural initiatives.
		SICRI operates with reference to broader concepts of cultural heritage [see UNESCO, 2003: What is Cultural Heritage and Types of Cultural Heritage]; consideration of island communities as (simultaneously) isolated and connected; and is concerned to address the impacts and potentials offered by tourism.
		ISLAND CULTURES CONFERENCE (held at the Museum Theatre, Norfolk Island Museum, Kingston, Norfolk Island, 9–13 February 2006) now available online.
	sicri.org (293 words)

	Run The Planet
		Norfolk Island is only 5 miles long and 3 miles wide and it is absolutely the best place in the whole world for running and walking, because there are not many cars and trucks, the roads are fairly free of traffic with lovely scenery in all directions.
		Not necessarily, there are some wonderful runs through the bush in the National park, along the waterfront at Kingston among the restored buildings and Georgian ruins, or around the winding and sometimes steep roads.
		If you know of any events in Kingston that are not mentioned here, there are two ways you can share the information with the rest of the runners: 1.
	www.runtheplanet.com /location.php?q=2&l=2707&page=main (1043 words)

	Kingston and the Islands - Search Results - MSN Encarta (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Kingston and the Islands - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Rhode Island, University of, public, coeducational institution of higher education in Kingston, Rhode Island, 40 km (25 mi) south of Providence.
		Kingston (Jamaica), largest city, capital, and chief seaport of Jamaica, on a deep harbor on the southeastern coast of the Caribbean island, at the...
	encarta.msn.com /encnet/refpages/search.aspx?q=Kingston+and+the+Islands (110 words)

	Cultural Network Directory (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The Archives is a Department of the Norfolk Islands Museum and supports the activities of the museum as well as answering public research enquiries.
		Also available are research files covering all settlements on Norfolk Island, catalogued onto a electronic database.
		Culinary tradition on Norfolk originates from the Bounty mutineers and their Tahitian wives.
	www.spc.org.nc /Culture/activities_norfolk.htm (566 words)

	AFP charge man with murder on Norfolk Island - AFP
		The Australian Federal Police (AFP) launched an investigation this afternoon following the discovery of the body of a 60-year-old Norfolk Island man. Ivens Buffett, Norfolk Island's Minister for Land and Environment, was found dead in his office around midday.
		A man arrested by AFP officers on Norfolk Island this afternoon was charged tonight with murder under Section 19 of the Norfolk Island Crimes Act.
		Anyone with information in relation to Mr Buffett's death is urged to contact Norfolk Island Police on 0011 6 7232 2222.
	www.afp.gov.au /media_releases/national/2004/afp_charge_man_with_murder_on_norfolk_island (247 words)

	Norfolk Island Map: Kingston \| Norfolk Island Google Satellite Maps
		With comprehensive destination gazetteer, maplandia.com enables to explore Norfolk Island through detailed satellite imagery — fast and easy as never before.
		If you would like to recommend this Norfolk Island map page to a friend, or if you just want to send yourself a reminder, here is the easy way to do it.
		Expedia is the long-standing web leader in online delivery of everything you need for researching, planning, and purchasing a whole trip in Norfolk Island.
	www.maplandia.com /norfolk-island (614 words)

	Kingston Map \| Norfolk Island Google Satellite Maps
		This place is situated in Norfolk Island, its geographical coordinates are 29° 3' 0" South, 167° 57' 0" East and its original name (with diacritics) is Kingston.
		And last but not least you will find Kingston and Norfolk Island travel services offer including cheap flights, cheap hotels and other accommodation deals at the bottom of this page.
		If you would like to recommend this Kingston map page to a friend, or if you just want to send yourself a reminder, here is the easy way to do it.
	www.maplandia.com /norfolk-island/kingston (521 words)

	Convict - History and Culture - Norfolk Island
		the flagship of the First Fleet, was wrecked on the reef at Kingston.
		Loosened from their chains, they fell down in the dust, and, in the warmth of their gratitude, kissed the very feet that had brought them peace.
		Copyright © 2005 - 2006 Norfolk Island Tourism.
	www.norfolkisland.com.au /history_and_culture/convict.cfm (741 words)

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		Copies may be obtained from the Gazette Officer, Administration of Norfolk Island, Kingston, Norfolk Island.
		At a general meeting of the members of the company duly convened and held at The Professional Centre, Taylors Road, Norfolk Island on 7th day of March, 2000, the (special) resolution set out below was duly passed.
		At a general meeting of the members of the company duly convened and held at Norfolk Island on the 20th day of March, 2000, the resolution set out below, was duly passed/agreed to.
	www.info.gov.nf /isysrich/gazette/2000/2000_03_30GazetteNo18.doc (555 words)

	Pitcairn Island Virtual Shopping Mall - The Norfolk Connection (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Alice Buffett, a descendant of John Buffett who brought the woodcarving art to both the Pitcairners and the Norfolkers, shares her knowledge of Norfolk, Pitcairn History and folklore with all visitors.
		The title of this CD refers to Toofie's life-long residence on and committment to Norfolk Island (pilli lornga meaning 'sticking with').
		This is Toofie's recording debut, and the songs attest to the uniqueness, diversity and resilience of contemporary Norfolk Island culture.
	www.lareau.org /pivsm9.html (243 words)

	TakingITGlobal - Norfolk Island - - Kingston
		There are currently no Panorama articles from or about Kingston.
		TakingITGlobal Kingston is a web-based platform for ideas and expression, a resource of opportunities, and a network of inspirational young people and their projects.
		Below is a summary of what youth in Norfolk Island, think the most important issues are in their country:
	kingston.norfolkisland.takingitglobal.org (200 words)

	New South Wales Hotels & Motel Accommodation, for Aussie-Acommodation.com.au
		Lord Howe Island and Norfolk Island, cast adrift in the deep blue waters of the South Pacific, offer a fabulous holiday experience in serene, subtropical surroundings.
		Both islands are superbly equipped with a choice of accommodation for all holiday needs.
		The Central Coast region of NSW stretches north from Sydney to the southern shores of Lake Macquarie.
	www.aussie-accommodation.com.au /NewSouthWales/NorfolkIsland (1646 words)

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