Place | Type | AsNotedIn | Area |
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Place | Type | AsNotedIn | Area |
Kingston and Arthurs Vale Historic Area | Penal Colony, convict settlement |
Y/M/D | Person | Association | Description | Composition | Food | Event |
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Y/M/D | Person | Association | Description | Composition | Food | Event |
1774/10/00 | James Cook | Captain | James Cook sights Norfolk Island | Second Voyage of James Cook | ||
1788/02/15 | Arthur Phillip | Military | Captain Arthur Phillip established a British convict colony on Norfolk Island | |||
1856/00/00 | Pitcairn Islanders, decedents of the BOUNTY mutineers, are relocated to Norfolk Island, a former penal colony nearly 4,000 miles to the west. | Mutiny on the HMS Bounty |
Island in the South Pacific Ocean, east of Australia - The World Factbook
Particulars for Norfolk Island: | |
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Physiographic feature | Island |
Theme | AsNotedIn |
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Australian Convict Sites |
Two British attempts at establishing the island as a penal colony (1788-1814 and 1825-55) were ultimately abandoned. In 1856, the island was resettled by Pitcairn Islanders, descendants of the Bounty mutineers and their Tahitian companions. - The World Factbook
Work | Type | AsNotedIn | Creator | Note |
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A First Fleet Family | Book | Walter James Jeffery Lewis Becke | Setting | |
Admiral Phillip: the Founding of New South Wales | Book | Lewis Becke Walter James Jeffery | Setting |
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