Norfolk Island

Norfolk Island, a dependency of New South Wales in the Western Pacific, about 450 miles N.W. of the north point of New Zealand; area 13-1/2 square miles. The mean altitude of the cliffs is 400 feet, whilst Mount Pitt, in the centre, rises 1,039 feet alove the sea. The climate is healthy. The chief product is the Norfolk Island pine. The island was a penal settlement from 1788 to 1805 and from 1826 to 1855. The descendants of the Bounty mutineers were removed hither from Pitcairn Island in 1856.