Norfolk Island from Geoff's SILICON SHEEP site

Norfolk Island

South Pacific

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This is at 167°57'E, 29°02'S, roughly 8km x 5km (3455 hectares) tip of a 2.5 million year old ex-volcano on the Rise linking New Zealand to Noumea. It is 1700km NNE of Sydney, an external Territory of Australia. About 1500 residents and 30000 visitors a year. It has a 50km/hr speed limit, and cows, ducks and feral chickens have right-of-way on its roads, all tar-sealed. 10 to 25 international flights a week (up to Boeing 737/Fokker 2000 size) from NZ, Brisbane, Sydney, Auckland, plus supply ships Auckland/NI/Lord Howe Island/

Kerry and I decided a 7 night stay on Norfolk Island would be a nice thing to do this year, after our week on Lord Howe Island last year. Very nice place, but we needed passports! Oops, out comes the ugly pix - ever seen a _good_ passport photo?

Some views of the island - going around the island clockwise from the first view we had.

North-western corner at Point Vincent Image 34kB, 768x512			North-west to north corner of the island - Duncombe Bay (and Kerry) Image 65kB, 768x512
Along north coast: Green Pool Stone, Cathedral Rock, Bird Rock. Image 52kB, 768x512			Cathedral Rock Image 58kB, 768x512
Cascade Jetty, one of two on the island Image 53kB, 768x512			Cascade: basalt pipes to north of falls and cascades. Image 117kB, 768x512
Cascade Falls Image 93kB, 512x768			Cascade's cascades into the sea, 100m from falls Image 85kB, 512x768
Ball Bay, the remains of the volcano's throat. Image 72kB, 768x512			Bloody Bridge, convict-built Image 51kB, 568x768
Along Cemetery Beach from Bloody Bridge Image 51kB, 512x768			Emily Bay. One Tree Point that Captain Cook charted in October 1774. Image 38kB, 768x512
Royal Engineer Office 1851, near Kingston Jetty, with rainstorm passing off to the north. Boatshed is from 1840s. Image 35 kB, 768x512			Kingston Jetty and west - 2m swell running. Image 52kB, 768x512
Quality Row, golf course, Nepean and Phillip Islands from the Queen Elizabeth Lookout at Kingston. Note One Tree in middle... Image 48kB, 768x512			Quality Row, more to the west (right) Kingston Jetty at top. Image 50kB, 768x512
Point Ross looking back to One Tree, Kingston Image 79kB, 768x512			Anson Bay, where the ANZCAN submarine cable comes ashore, south to Puppy's Point. Image 47kB, 768x512
Nepean Is over the airport, from Mt Pitt (320m) Image			Misty rain from Callam Court up to Mt Pitt (30knot winds!) Image 53kB, 768x512

Small panorama from our balcony at Callam Court:

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The Cascades and Falls are in the valley NNE/NE from Callam Court. OK, I got the levels a tad off, and the cropping has yet to be done... At least I fixed up the table sizes (at last.)

I still have to crop and reduce image sizes, so these pix will alter. Next, I'll add a link to a page of index files to all 225 pix I took. So if you want copies, I can upload them. Or send you a cdrom with the lot... You never know, it may make you want to go there. And I haven't even told you how good the shopping is!

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Author: Geoff Mutton
First created 1999-07-24
Last updated 2000-02-01 - International Organisation for Standards rules OK !