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The Norfolk Marine Park (formerly known as the Norfolk Commonwealth Marine Reserve) is an Australian marine park located in the waters immediately offshore of Norfolk Island, an external territory of Australia. The marine park extends 700 km (430 mi) in a north–south direction and covers an area of 188,444 km 2 (72,759 sq mi).
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 ...
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.
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.
The Marine Science Center at the Rosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric, and Earth Science at the University of Miami in the United States. This is a list of oceanography institutions and programs worldwide. Oceanographic institutions and programs are broadly defined as places where scientific research is carried out relating to oceanography.
Kingston (Norf'k: Daun a'Taun [2]) is the capital and main administrative centre of the Australian external territory of Norfolk Island. The Norfolk Island Regional Council is based in Kingston. [3] The settlement is the second-oldest in Australia, having been founded a little over a month after Sydney.
The collection include objects relating to the social history of the islands, for example buildings such as the Paradise Hotel. [9] There are also 14,000 objects relating to the history of the penal colonies. [10] The collections also include objects acquired by the Norfolk Island Historical Society, such as the Bounty Ring. [11]
Thackway, R and I D Cresswell (1995) An interim biogeographic regionalisation for Australia : a framework for setting priorities in the National Reserves System Cooperative Program Version 4.0 Canberra : Australian Nature Conservation Agency, Reserve Systems Unit, 1995. ISBN 0-642-21371-2