Monday, December 09, 2019

The far corner of the world...

So I'm reading through the news a bit ago and find a story about a place called Norfolk Island where some citizens are agitating to leave Australian governance and place the island under Kiwi control instead.

I wasn't familiar with Norfolk Island and so went to check out what Wikipedia had to say about the place. Turns out that the current inhabitants are descendants of the HMS Bounty mutineers, and have their own language, a creole of 18th Century English and Tahitian.

Tangentially related, almost all of Pitcairn Island is viewable in Google Street View.
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