Norfolk Island travel guide and things to do: 20 surprising things visitors will discover
1. Norfolk Island is part of Australia but most of the locals don't see themselves as Australian Many of the citizens of Norfolk Island, classified as an "Australian external territory" and 1670 kilometres northeast of Sydney, are descendents of the Mutiny on the Bounty incident of 1789. They came here from Pitcairn, the Pacific island where the original mutineers first settled, after life on the tiny, crowded and rocky outcrop became intolerable. And they did so with the approval of Queen Victoria who agreed to their passage in 1858. In contemporary times, with nearly 50 per cent of the popu...