The Norfolk Island story

Frank Clune

Published by Angus & Robertson, softcover, illustrated

Frank Clune takes us on a fascinating journey through the strange succession of remarkable events which make up Norfolk Island's infamous history. Eight kilometres long and five kilometres wide, a temperate and fertile paradise, Norfolk Island was once a notorious heil on earth. It became a harsh penal outpost of the colony of New South Wales, a place of the most cruel and extreme punishment. But to the descendants of the Bounty mutineers — the Pitcairn Islanders who were in search of a new home — Norfolk Island was to become a
genial place in which to settle and thrive. The families of the Pitcairners live there today,under tall pines, amid relics of the sombre past, in peace and sunshine.