Norfolk Island News

Q: A number of nurseries had really good deals on evergreens late this fall. I bought a few from a nursery.

The Norfolk Island population in the South Pacific is primarily the product of recent admixture between a small number of British male and Polynesian female founders.

E-mail: brian.mcevoy@qimr.edu.au Received 30 July 2009; Revised 20 October 2009; Accepted 5 November 2009; Published online 9 December 2009.

Two types of phalaenopsis : a oeLeopard Prince,a left and rear, and a oePrince Sun,a right.

A couple in Samoa have been found guilty of Actual Bodily Harm, but not guilty of manslaughter, after a panel of four assessors reached a verdict last week.

The Captain Cook monument on Norfolk Island. The bounty and beauty of Norfolk Island are hard to describe without going biblical.

The crew, a medical team, the patient and the patient's spouse aboard a medical evacuation flight from Samoa to Australia were uninjured after the Pel-Air Westwind jet ditched in the open ocean in weather that prompted the pilot to ditch rather than trying for the airport at Norfolk Island.

From the here's-an-accident-report-I-can't-wait-to-read file comes yesterday's report of a Westwind ditching near Norfolk Island, in the western Pacific.

Norfolk Island's annual jazz festival is on from December 7-11 among the Norfolk pines and historic ruins.

THE Pacific Games Council has referred proposals for the change in the eligibility rules to a special review committee.

From Sailors and Traders: A Maritime History of the Pacific Peoples , by Alastair Couper , pp.

Two mature Norfolk Island pine trees on Cliff Rd that have stood for decades were reduced to tree stumps and woodchips in just a few hours yesterday morning.

Not long ago I traveled to a nearby town to do some research for a Tribune article.

Navarat Komutanont has grown a tree for 36 years. It has become so tall that her closest neighbours are concerned about it.