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The 2009 Pel-Air Westwind ditching or Norfolk Island ditching was an aircraft accident on 18 November 2009 near Norfolk Island, Australia.A Westwind II jet operated by Pel-Air was conducting an air ambulance flight for CareFlight International when it was forced to ditch after being unable to land in bad weather and not having sufficient fuel to divert to an alternate destination.
The Norfolk boobook (Ninox novaeseelandiae undulata), also known as the Norfolk Island boobook, Norfolk Island owl or Norfolk Island morepork, was a bird in the true owl family endemic to Norfolk Island, an Australian territory in the Tasman Sea between Australia and New Zealand. It was a subspecies of the morepork (Ninox novaeseelandiae).
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.
The episode featured Norfolk Island's policy of culling growing cattle populations by killing older cattle and feeding the carcasses to tiger sharks well off the coast. This is done to help prevent tiger sharks from coming further toward shore in search of food. Norfolk Island holds one of the largest populations of tiger sharks in the world.
Burnt Pine (Norf'k: Ban Pain [1]) is the largest town on Norfolk Island, an Australian external territory located in the Pacific Ocean between New Caledonia and New Zealand.It is the main commercial hub of the island, and travel from one side of the island to another generally involves passing through Burnt Pine as the island's sole thoroughfare runs through the town's centre.
Politics 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. The Norfolk Island Act 1979, passed by the Parliament of Australia in 1979, is the Act under which the island is governed.
Norfolk Island pines have beautiful branches in a whorled pattern with soft, touchable foliage. In its natural habitat, it can reach up to 200 feet tall, but indoors, it maxes out at 6 to 10 feet ...
Lord Howe Island lies within the region, but Norfolk Island lies east of the region, although the bureau continues to monitor tropical cyclones when they are a threat to the external territory. [7] The region also covers waters off Papua New Guinea and western parts of the Solomon Islands. The region averages four tropical cyclones in a season ...