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High Surf on Norfolk Island (24)
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The the 32-km coastline of Norfolk Island consists, to varying degrees, of cliff faces. There are no safe harbour facilities on Norfolk Island, with loading jetties existing at Kingston and Cascade Bay. Here at Cascade Bay there are only rocks and shingle, and the weather is usually more protected there, and this is where one of the two jetty’s on the island is.
Note the Norfolk Pines on the hillside. You could hardly take a photo without having at least one Norfolk Pine in it!!
This is the sea reaching the shoreline at Cascade Bay. The waves were rough and heavy as they crashed onto the rocks there. We had a fun time evading the waves, and I managed to get quite a few ‘good shots’ of the surf. No, we were quite safe – it was only the odd large wave that broke like this on the rocky shore. We were on the jetty, and had plenty of roadway to run onto…
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Norfolk Island is surrounded by cliffs, rising in the north and west to 300 ft. or 400 ft., and elsewhere to the height of 200 ft. The cliffs are slowly eroding away, and the island is now much smaller than it originally was. In most places at the foot of the cliffs there are narrow beaches, usually of shingle.
Discovered by Captain James Cook, it was claimed by him for Great Britain and named in honour of the Duchess of Norfolk. Cook's crew were struck by the island's rugged beauty and the abundance of flax and pine.
Cook sailed on, and the island was to remain uninhabited for a further 14 years. Since then the island has seen two penal settlements come and go, from 1525 – 1855, the second of which was the most brutal ever established by Britain.
In 1856 the island received those who call it home to this day - the Pitcairners, descendants of the Bounty Mutineers.
During the intervening 140 years these people have nurtured the island to make it a prosperous, tranquil and beautiful place. Thousands of people from all over the world now come to experience the history, beauty and unique Pitcairn culture that make Norfolk Island a great place to visit.
There is a permanent population of around 1800 made up of roughly a third native Norfolk Islanders, a third Australian, and a third New Zealanders. |
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