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Norfolk Island Museum
Norfolk Island Museum is a museum organisation on Norfolk Islanders, Norfolk Island, an external territory of Australia in the southern Pacific Ocean. The museum comprises five sites and collections that include archaeological, archival and social history objects that reflect subsequent waves of forced migration to the island. Sites Norfolk Island Museum consists of five sites: No. 10 Quality Row - a Georgian period house; Pier Store - a museum of the Mutiny on the Bounty, Bounty Mutineers and Pitcairn Island; Sirius Museum - a maritime museum dedicated to HMS Sirius (1786), HMS Sirius; Commissariat Store - housing archaeological displays; Norfolk Island Research Centre - the archive. The museums lie within the Kingston and Arthur's Vale Historic Area, a World Heritage Site also linked to the Australian Convict Sites. Collections Collections held by Norfolk Island Museum include material excavated from the HMS Sirius during a research programme led by Graham Henderson in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Norfolk Islanders
Norfolk Islanders also referred to as just Islanders are the inhabitants or citizens of Norfolk Island, an States and territories of Australia, external territory of Australia. The Islanders have their own unique identity and are predominantly people of Pitcairn Islanders, Pitcairn and English people, English descent and to a lesser extent of Scottish people, Scottish and Irish people, Irish. The culture held in common by most native-born Norfolk Islanders is mainstream Norfolk culture, traditions primarily inherited from the 194 Pitcairn settlers in 1856. All of the people that claim Pitcairn ancestry are descendants of the Bounty mutineers, descended from the British people, British HMS Bounty, HMS ''Bounty'' mutineers and the Tahitians, Tahitian companions, including the few who settled afterwards. In the 2016 Australian census, 2016 census, there were 381 Norfolk Island-born residents out of a total of 1,748 List of countries and dependencies by population, inhabi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
