In in September 2007, I spent a great week on Norfolk Island, a former British penal colony,
an island located in the South Pacific Ocean, east of the Australian mainland.
Norfolk Island (Norfuk: Norfuk Ailen) is a small inhabited island in the Pacific Ocean
located between Australia, New Zealand and New Caledonia,
and along with two neighbouring islands, Phillip and Nipean Islands,
forms one of Australia's external territories.
It has an area of 34.6 kms (13.3 miles)with no large-scale internal bodies of water but 32 km of coastline.
The climate is subtropical and mild, with little seasonal differentiation.
The island is the eroded remnant of a basaltic volcano active around 2.3 to 3 million years ago,[1]
with inland areas now consisting mainly of rolling plains.
The Norfolk Island pine, a symbol of the island pictured in its flag,
is a striking evergreen tree native to the island.