Home（https://carenorfolk.org/）
What we do（https://carenorfolk.org/what-we-do）
Where to start（https://carenorfolk.org/where-to-start）
Contact（https://carenorfolk.org/contact）
How we began（https://carenorfolk.org/how-we-began）
About Norfolk Island（https://carenorfolk.org/about-norfolk-island）
Resources（https://carenorfolk.org/resources）
Boomerang Bags（https://carenorfolk.org/boomerang-bags）
A place for angels and eagles to reside in...
The French navigator, La Pérouse - describing Norfolk Island
Where are we located?
Norfolk Island is located in the South Pacific Ocean, 29°03 south and 167°95 east, about 6,000 kilometres west south west of Pitcairn Island.
Norfolk has a land area of 3,455 hectares, surrounded with a rugged coastline of high cliffs fringed with the indigenous Norfolk Island pine trees (Araucaria heterophylla). The island’s volcanic history allows for a colourful display of layers of dark lava, separated by beds of tuff and rock formed by compacted fine volcanic ash.
From the viewpoint of Mount Pitt and Mount Bates, which reaches a height of over 305 metres, looking southward amidst the vast blue ocean lie two smaller islands, Nepean and Philip.
‘The World of Norfolk’ Branding Report in 2009 shared;
The people of Norfolk Island are an inextricable extension of its history. They are a proud race with a strong patriotic fervour, talented, resourceful and hardworking; display a warm, hospitable attitude and a great sense of humour. They are possessive about their land, lineage and lifestyle but are spontaneously generous when it comes to sharing with visitors whatever they own. Many are ready and willing to invite tourists to their homes for a meal after only a casual encounter. They multitask in the true sense of the word, performing two or three jobs in a day; some do it out of economic necessity others because they enjoy the variety or just like to volunteer. Marriage, migration and mobility have altered the mix of the population with the original Pitcairn descendants accounting for 40% of the populace while people of Australian and New Zealander origin are equally represented among the rest.
Language & Greetings
Our traditional greeting in the Norf’k language is ‘whutta-waye’ ? Translated literally, it means: ‘how are you?’ It’s not just saying ‘hello’… we are instantly concerned with your wellbeing… how are you?
As children, we were brought up to be respectful of the times when we were speaking our Norf’k language. Traditionally it was seen to be rude and disrespectful if you spoke Norf’k within the company of people who didn’t understand what you were saying.
The spelling of ‘ whutta-waye’ is from: Beryl Nobbs Palmer, Norfolk Island Dictionary
The Norf’k language historically evolved as an oral language.