Creator British Admiralty Hydrographic Office

Date 1855

World Heritage Listed as part of a suite of 11 Australian Convict Sites, the extraordinarily beautiful Norfolk Island - a remote spec in the Pacific between Australia, New Zealand and New Caledonia - possesses a landscape steeped in colonial history. It is layered with archeological reminders of its role as a penal settlement.⁣.⁣⁣.⁣According to the World Heritage citation: ‘the 11 places that make up the Australian Convict Sites World Heritage serial listing tell a story of exile from one side of the world to the other and how a new nation was formed from hardship, inequality and adversity. Together the sites represent the global phenomenon of convictism - the forced migration of convicts to penal colonies in the 18th and 19th centuries - and global developments in the punishment of crime in modern times. The Australian Convict Sites are the preeminent examples of our rich convict history, with more than 3000 convict sites remaining around Australia. This is unique in the world today. On 31 July 2010 the Australian Convict Sites became Australia’s 18th World Heritage listed place.’⁣

Source: National Library of Australia