Norfolk Island
About Norfolk Island
Norfolk Island is an external territory of Australia located in the Pacific Ocean between New Zealand and New Caledonia, 1,412 kilometres (877 mi) directly east of Australia's Evans Head and about 900 kilometres (560 mi) from Lord Howe Island. Together with the neighbouring Phillip Island and Nepean Island, the three islands collectively form the Territory of Norfolk Island. At the 2021 census, it had 2,188 inhabitants living on a total area of about 35 km2 (14 sq mi). Its capital is Kingston.
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If you were badly behaved in Britain and you got sent to Australia, if you were badly behaved in Australia, then they'd send you even further to Norfolk Island. I want to know what happens if you're badly behaved in Norfolk Island. What happens then?
from No Such Thing As The Very Sexy Caterpillar, 2018-11-30 at 00:05:34 · read transcript
Other times Norfolk Island came up
I thought it was in... Potato potato. I thought it was in Somerset. Oh, I'm sure it's in Somerset. One of those ones in whichever county you happen to be talking about. Don't confuse Norfolk with the language with Norfolk, which is N-O-R-F-U-K, which is a language spoken on Norfolk Island. Oh, it goes. Oh, just off Australia. In the Pacific, yeah. Yeah. It's a blend of 18th-century English and Tahitian.
244: No Such Thing As A Fishman, 2018-11-23 · listen
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Coordinates: -29.0333, 167.9500