Australia's Remote Islands (2013) Ep 3 Norfolk Island
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- čas přidán 20. 08. 2024
- Norfolk Island is a small island in the Pacific ocean between Australia, New Zealand and New Caledonia. With pristine views 360 degrees all round. It is a self-governing island and has a fascinating history of convicts and mutineers. Along with a quirky style of Government. Many of its people are direct descendents of Fletcher Christian and his bounty mutineers. A proud people, they have their own language and culture and celebrate their traditions on the annual Bounty Day.
"island for the newly weds and nearly dead's" I'm 17 and there's nothing I want more right now than to visit to this island.
the original Polynesian settlers of Pitcairn island are long gone , the Polynesians who married the mutinous crew of Captain Fletcher Christian were from Tahiti
This is the closest land to my antipode. Not that far from it too! Funny how Norfolk Island pines are popular even all the way around here. I have one in my garden.
I use to leave on Norfolk Island, it is so beautiful and amazing.
used to*
used to live*
Fuck Norfolk Island is shit😂
Just wondering, would you know anyone from Norfolk who'd be interested in leasing there property
Interesting doc, thank you for sharing.
I've been aware of Norfolk Island for a long time, ever since I found out that the late Colleen MacCoullagh (sorry about the spelling), one of my all time favorite authors, lived there.
That Sorrell's got some.spunk!
If they want milk, breed dairy cows, not beef cattle.
Build a port for God's sake. You have so much to export in terms of fish and agriculture which is pure. Forget New Zealand lamb or Australian beef - this is your chance to be an organic superstar.
Deplorable D Don't export your food while you're still dependent on external economies. Eat the food you grow & stop exporting for pittances.
Not everything needs to be industrialized
Such beautiful fruits, I will be happy with them
I have ancestors from north folk island and Pitcairn Island and related to the hms bounty
There is no port, but someone managed to get all that sandstone up there and built incredible structures? hmm
convicts made them by hand
@@Quokka666 because that was their first thought and priority, not food or shelter? Check out Paul Cook's channel sometime, if you want a more realistic view.
Great doco
They need a new non-usury/commodity currency. I agree with the Ric and Colleen.
Lost a lot without direct NZ flights - just too hard to get to
I'm a proud Norfolk Islander and would hate to see it go under
+endAuthority I was going to ask that same thing. Also, why are they importing milk and yogurt when they have cows and can produce their own? If need be, they can build their own sailing ships and go out and bring back supplies...as their ancestors did.
However, playing Devil's Advocate, I cannot understand why retired millionaires and billionaires don't buy homes here!?!? Didn't the Rolling Stones do that - buy an island to get away from the hectic world? This would be a perfect place to live if you're rich. If that happened, who knows...overnight the island could turn into the Bermuda of the Pacific!?!?
Maybe these are all bad ideas, but, they're not officially bad ideas until they're tried and don't work.
+endAuthority Yes, well...the richest 1% of the US owns approximately half the country's wealth. That likely applies somewhat to most of the rest of the world.
They're not dumb...they're greedy and selfish. There's a big difference.
You're funny!
You wrote three little sentences...then, had to go back and edit them. You left the word subhuman...why? Then, you don't use correct punctuation...why? Then, you still left the word "English" with a lower-case 'e.'
TheFive8th made no grammatical errors, but, you did. Then, you call him a subhuman!?!? WHY?
Who's the 'real' barbarian (subhuman) in your silly equation?
Why the Hell are they importing milk ffs they have there own cows
Is there any rentals on the island ,thanks
What set this apart from Lord Howe & pitcairns is their "Resiliency" but their common ground is Unity.
With such a small gene pool of related people on the Island, how do they have children? A very personal but obvious question.
Love the nature save the Earth.
And the people who live on Earth.
I've been on Pitcairn Island.
beauferret were u molested there???
Mar-vell Halason Firstly, that's a very personal question to ask someone, and secondly, no I wasn't molested there. The islanders are very friendly to visitors and guests and they treat you like family.
beauferret
If they treat you just like family...............Then my condolences to you, being a victim of a sexual crime is never easy. Have you heard of the rampant child abuse there by the inbreed islanders? it was quite the news.
it's still in the news. The men are still denying it ever happened but all the girls & women that have spoken out about it are very adamant -it happened. The police reports also collaborate them.
The slimy, old men on that island who say "it's an island thing" or "they didn't say no" need to be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.
@@berja3895 I remember reading about the history of the sexual abuse of children on Pitcairn Island in an issue of Vanity Fair magazine a few years ago.
Ima proud Norfolk Islander and I would hate to see my home go under :/
Local self-reliance; get rid of dependence and keep your freedom.
settled by British, not europeans. Sorrell bloody Wilby calls mutineers " pirates "
13:24 Don't they have computers? everything still recorded on paper only.
Struggles of Norfolk Island Australia.
were do we apply to move there,,,
2:55 lmao
sounds like at the time, the islanders wanna have their cake and eat it as well. they wanna stay independent, but cant manage and need help from outside. that help automatically comes with loss of that independence.
I am totally going to go there. Look out u norfolks a crazy canadian will be coming there as soon as I can afford to go on a vacation!!! At least rent is cheap on the island. Alsogoing to intoduce longboarding to these folkz. Lol
If it's so insular, aren't they in danger of inbreeding? They can accidentally marry distant relatives, and have genetic defects.
inbreeding is not always necessarily bad. Inbreeding strengthens traits, good and bad. Non related people with similar traits can also strengthen those traits i.e. 2 unrelated high IQ'd, healthy people with produce intelligent healthy children. 2 unrelated people with a history of the same genetic illness will produce sickly children. Long before the time when most people lived in cities, all small communities were inbred.
Yeah, in the old days, but you have the genes and chromosomes linking together to create defects. Complicated, but I suppose it's why they made incest illegal when we all got more knowledge of its dangers.
Mixed is always better.
LOL Hawaii is just as expensive... 4.50 a gallon of gas... 10 bucks for a gallon of milk... And Maui has a big port... sure helped prices there.
you realize the difference between a gallon and a liter? 1 gallon is almost 4 liter, so they are payin about 14-15$ for a gallon of milk and about 8-9$ for a gallon of gas. hardly comparable
It had nothing to do with Australia when we visited how strange how another country takes another country
blimmin Ozzys gave Norfolk Island some loans then took the whole place over China-style - let the Norfolk people, the people of the land govern themselves - not some fish head from Canberra
Sooo no one else got creeped out at 3:05?
yeah a creepy empty laugh. Nothing against Aussies per se but a lot of them are pretty odd.
@@jenniferkoo2206 she's an author; they all live inside their own heads.
what is their language and how do you speak their language plz i need help for my project...! :D
+Shennie May Vicente On here, below, ask TheFive8th...he claims to be a "Proud Norfolk Islander," maybe he can help you. Didn't they say it's a mixture of English and Native Polynesian!?!?
I would invest in this island but i live in the caribbean & it takes 14 years for me to get Australian citizenship
Khem Francis go there, stir up another mutiny, have your independent country. Be the King yourself. Just remember one thing, they have mutiny in their blood. Sure you can be the King for the beginning. But...
Why does it take 14 years to get Australian citizenship? That's horrible!
the island pitcairn its fishing water is outrented by the 7day adventist church to japanese companys the waters is the size of GB land area , so howe mutch water is around norfolk and what kind of fishes can u fish 4 food
Video: This island has fascinating history, geography and way of life! But lets talk about its economy
Me: zzz
I'm main land 🇦🇺 on a pension ,would any Islanders want to lease there home is be very interested ✌️
Philippines
Too windy
so where's the polynesians at??
There were no Polynesians apart from the mixed race people that came from Pitcairn. It was an empty island.
Tahitians are Polynesians.
The problem as I see it is their separate government and the fact that they pay no income tax. Conformity with the rules and regulations that govern mainland Australians would seem to be a major step in the right direction. The expectation by Norfolk Island that the Australian Federal Government will bail them out of their current financial crisis, is rather insulting to those of us who have to pay income tax when they don't.
Isn't part of the issue with asking for help the fact that they'll have to pay taxes? It's not like they've been leeching off Australia but not giving back. They weren't paying taxes because they weren't receiving government aid or services. Once they ask for aid, it will end an era of self sufficiency and they'll no longer be exempt from taxes and possibly have less control over the management of the island.
groomedtodie Norfolk Island has been an integral part of the Commonwealth of Australia since 1914, when it was accepted as an Australian territory under section 122 of the Constitution. The Island has no international status independent of Australia. The Island was established as a self-governing territory by the Norfolk Island Act 1979. Since F/Y 2010-11, the Australian Government has provided *$33 million* in both on-going and emergency funding. So my original comment is valid. You might find this interesting.
www.minister.infrastructure.gov.au/jb/speeches/2014/jbs007_2014.aspx
This island was on the other side of the world when a giant meteor slammed into the planet at the Yucatan, 65 million years ago. The impact causing the mass extinction of the dinosaurs and most other life on Earth...
I was struck when I first saw pictures of Norfolk Island's unique trees. They look like the survivors of trees from some lost prehistoric age...(which they may well be!)
I hope efforts are being made to preserve and protect this islands wonderful flora. Perhaps this could lead to ecological tourism? I certainly hope to visit some day.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Araucaria_heterophylla - world famous Norfolk Island Pine
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyathea_brownii - Norfolk Island Tree Fern
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norfolk_Island#Flora
lol
Aussies 21st dirty land grab from the indigenous people - helping is one thing - telling Islanders they can t fish in their own waters as they have done traditionally for over 160 years is outraegous
There was no "indigenous" people in this island. earlier arrivals came and disappeared a few hundred years before the next group (europeans).
The Islanders are of the wrong color.
@@lorenzomagazzeni5425 Shut up.
Jesus made this island but He is not in the churhce.s
where the worst of the worst criminals were sent by the British empire, Norfolk island.
You are wrong ,many of the convicts sent to Australia ,for only very minor crimes ,example ,theft of food,cheese ,or bread,etc.For escape and refusal to work as a slave,they where sent from the Australian main land to the hell hole of the Norfolk Island convict prison .Norfolk from the 1790's was a military garrison , a strong hold from which UK could launch naval task force in to the Pacific.As there was at this time a very strong American presence of sealers and whalers in the South Pacific and in New Zealand waters.
As usual, it's the folks who are rich, don't want any Govt involvement and screw everyone else. Even though having a stable and helpful Govt is what allowed them to get rich in the first place.
All changed now -the place was totally broke and the appeal of Australian welfare and medical proved too strong
Some stupid comments here -if the island wants to be independent or go to NZ or the UK Australia wouldn't mind - the island is living off Australian taxpayers
@@rajivmurkejee7498 And so what if they are?
A lot of You people are far from what you are portraying on this program,
god save the queen but she don t give a fc uk
I know it is desperate, but asking the Australian government for help is the last thing that should be done!!!!
Why? Are you going to give Norfolk Island enough money to stay afloat? If you aren't, then please be quiet!
Garbage I have lived there on & off since the 80s. Self government rip off , handouts for the chosen few.
I am totally going to go there. Look out u norfolks a crazy canadian will be coming there as soon as I can afford to go on a vacation!!! At least rent is cheap on the island. Alsogoing to intoduce longboarding to these folkz. Lol