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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).
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 following is a list of marine ecoregions, as defined by the WWF and The Nature Conservancy. The WWF/Nature Conservancy scheme groups the individual ecoregions into 12 marine realms, which represent the broad latitudinal divisions of polar, temperate, and tropical seas, with subdivisions based on ocean basins.
Since 2010, Island Conservation has contributed to the development and implementation of island restoration projects in Australia (Lord Howe Island [36] and Norfolk Island), French Polynesia (Tetiꞌaroa Restoration Project in 2022, [37] Acteon-Gambier Archipelago Restoration Project [38] in 2015), Tonga (Late Island and numerous small islets ...
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 ...
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.
Norfolk Island Lighter Boat, with Pier Store in background. Norfolk Island Museum consists of five sites: No. 10 Quality Row - a Georgian period house; Pier Store - a museum of the Bounty Mutineers and Pitcairn Island; Sirius Museum - a maritime museum dedicated to HMS Sirius; Commissariat Store - housing archaeological displays; Norfolk Island Research Centre - the archive.
March 10, 1846 – A tropical cyclone impacted Norfolk Island. [3] March 16–17, 1846 – A tropical cyclone impacted Samoa and the Cook Islands. [6] January 16, 1847 – A tropical cyclone impacted the island of Tanna within Vanuatu. [12] March 2–11, 1847 – A tropical cyclone impacted southern Vanuatu, New Caledonia and Norfolk Island. [6 ...