NOUN
- an island territory of Australia in the Pacific Ocean off the eastern coast of Australia; formerly a British penal colony
How To Use Norfolk Island In A Sentence
- There are hedges of pittosporum, arbors veiled by passion-flowers, and two of that most beautiful of all living trees, the _araucaria_, or Norfolk Island pine, -- one specimen being some eighty feet high, and said to be the tallest north of the equator. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 37, November, 1860
- The fledgling Norfolk Island based AusTOTE also offers volume based commission rates of 2 to 5%, proving that a totalisator can be run on those low margins.
- Blainey suggested that bases were established at both Sydney and Norfolk Island in 1788 because New Zealand flax and Norfolk Island pine could provide ropes, sailcloth, and masts for the British navy.
- Galahs and lorikeets are shrilling and squawking over their territory in the old Norfolk Island pines and everyone is glad that night, finally, has rescued us from the sun's brutal strength.
- He was appointed superintendent of the penal colony on Norfolk Island in 1840.
- On the way, he had raided the little islet of Ugi, sacked the store, and taken the head of the solitary trader, a gentle-souled half-caste from Norfolk Island who traced back directly to a Pitcairn ancestry straight from the loins of McCoy of the Bounty. CHAPTER XXIII
- By the late 1870s, eucalyptus, Norfolk Island pine, bamboo, and banana had all run riot.
- The Norfolk Island boobook (Ninox novaeseelandiae royana), an endemic owl, was reduced to a single female in 1987 but has since mated successfully with a male New Zealand boobook (Ninox novaeseelandiae), and some of their offspring have also survived and bred. Norfolk Island subtropical forests
- They were to man the fishing coble at Norfolk Island. Morgan’s Run
- The Norfolk Island subspecies of the Long-tailed Triller has become extinct.