About Norfolk Island

Come to Norfolk Island with Anna Bartlett's Shiny Happy Art and spend a whole weekend enjoying thrilling lessons in this beautiful setting. She is a light, modern female from Toowoomba, Queensland. Skilled in acrylic, watercolor and blended medias, she will bring all these abilities into the game for this second Norfolk Island Shiny Happy Art Holiday.

She enjoys sharing her knowledge with the students and encourage them to explore their own styles and walk with him. She will concentrate on compositions and colours with a delicate equilibrium between arts and holidays. The vacation package includes: Non-painters like partner, relatives and boyfriends are welcome to join. At Norfolk we provide many different excursions and excursions during class hours.

Families and boyfriends are welcome to take part in events and outings. The balance is due before July 7, 2018. Modifications are possible until the date before the start of the trip, but only within 7 nights after the originally reserved date of the trip. Changes, updates and name changes are NOT allowed within 24 hrs before take-off.

Cancellations are valid within 90 nights before departure. Up to 100% cancellations may be made within 60 working nights of the trip. In some cases, we strongly advise you to take out cover against unexpected cancellations. In case you would rather use Visa or Mastercard, please note that you have to charge 1.5% of the overall costs of your vacationpacket.

Time travel back to Australia's Norfolk Island

After a grueling months on the island of Norfolk in 1856, Marie Bailey never even saw her grandma, who eventually made it onshore. When Marie was reborn on November 28, 1926, now a second inhabitant of Norfolk Island, her granny had been gone for four years. But it is her grandmother's amazing migratory history - and the history of 193 travelers from Pitcairn Island to Norfolk with her - that Marie, now in retirement, has told all her life as one of Norfolk's first travel agents.

It is not only a familiar tale close to her hearts, says Marie on my three-day Norfolk trip, it is also a tale that gives the outsider an insight into the latest phase of Norfolk Island's wealthy cultural heritage. It all began at Kingston Pier, Norfolk Island, on June 8, 1856.

This infant came 6,000 kilometers from Pitcairn to Norfolk at the request of Queen Victoria, who, when she heard of the distress of the Pitcairners, gave the whole community the chance to move to Norfolk. Archipelago residents, all of whom were immediate offspring of the Mummy Mothers and their Tahitians wife, became more numerous and face starving death in their small, isolated area.

At Norfolk, the queen was told they would be given cattle and provisions upon their arrivals and would be accommodated in Kingston's deserted prisoner town. To leave Pitcairn was a difficult choice, even heartrending for some. And so the so-called 4th important period of Norfolk's development was worked out. Norfolk Island, Australia (c) Jacqui Gibson.

Janelle Blucher, the current curator of the Norfolk Island Museum, says this housing development began the minute Marie's grandmother walked the Kingston Bridge and continues to this day. Almost half of the Norfolk Islanders (about 900 people), like Marie, are immediate offspring of these Pitcairn immigrants. Most of them still use Pitcairn, a blend of English from the eighteenth and Tahiti.

Norfolk Island's intriguing story did not begin there, Janelle says. Archaeological digs conducted throughout the Kingston area between 1995 and 1999 revealed clear indications of an Eastern Polynesia occupation from the thirteenth and fourteenth century. You also found proof of the early Polyynesian rats, Ratus Exulans, indicating that Norfolk was part of a Polyynesian navigation path that stretches from Tahiti and the Cook Islands to New Zealand and the Kermadecs.

However, the scientists believe that the island was probably uninhabited for several hundred years before it was inhabited again in 1788. Heir tombstone of David Buffett, a Pitcairn Island (c) Jacqui Gibson. The 35 sq km island was this year taken to the new UK New South Wales which became one of its first convicts' colonies and only the second UK con.

However, this period in Norfolk's settlements was over by 1814. Norfolk-Kiefer, the country's innate head money, which was once regarded as useful for ship poles, was perceived as inadequate. This is Norfolk once again left. Buidlings like the Government House (one of the oldest and most preserved of its kind in Australia), the New Militär Barracks, nine army and officers' homes, ruined hospitals (built on the remnants of the first settlement) and a graveyard known for its magnificent collections of centuries-old gravestones in a scenic seacoaster.

The Norfolk Island government building, which is part of the island's cultural inheritance, is an example of the preserved Georgian architectural style (c) Norfolk Island Tourism. Norfolk Island's cultural inheritance was inscribed on the UNESCO World Cultural List in 2010 and is one of the eleven most prominent places for convicts in Australia. "That time also gave the Pitcairn islanders much needed protection when they arrived," says Janelle.

"The Pitcairn folks immediately move in and start a second story college. Memoirs in the museums show that this is exactly what happend to Marie's grandma after her wife and daughter won a raffle that gave them the right to stay at number 10. In 1877 they jointly established a farm in Norfolk's capital Burnt Pine and founded a small group.

Marie stillives in this house today. From there she runs a very succesful tourist company. Remark: The author would like to pay tribute to the tragic death of Marie Bailey since this tale and thank the host Norfolk Island Tourist for organizing the trip with Marie. Northfolk Islanders in tradional attire on Bounty Sunday (their annual holiday ), Kingstonitage area ( ) Norfolk Island Tourist.

in 1856 -, village Pitcairn. The tourist industry is of key importance for the Norfolk Island business - and there are many offers. In the evenings you can take the Historic Convict Tour from Kingston by coach to recreate the punishment coon. There is Fletcher a 360-degree work of art, Fletcher's Mutiny Cyclorama, which illustrates the history of Fletcher Christian and the municipalities of Pitcairn and Norfolk Islands (Marie Bailey's idea - look for her grandmother's name'Emily Wellesley Christian' in the appeal).

They can even enjoy a round of golf at the historical Kingston and Arthur's Vale History Area (KAVHA). According to Janelle Blucher, deputy manager of the Norfolk Island Museum, the best thing to do is to stay in the major cultural inheritance area to explore the site, see the attractions and visit the musee.

"Purchase a passport that is good for the whole of your vacation and allows you to enter all four of them, as well as the Research Center and visits to the collection and exhibits. This is an air photograph of Norfolk's Kingston area, a UNESCO World Heritage Site (c) Norfolk Island Tourism.