Norfolk Island Against Whaling
24th of February 2013, Norfolk island comes out in protest against whaling..
Norfolk Island (part 2)
The 2019 NZ/AUS Bookcrossing Unconvention was held on Norfolk Island, a semi-tropical island north of New Zealand.
In this episode: we start exploring the island, and most importantly, go to the beach to introduce my new chest to the ocean!
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Norfolk Island (, locally ; Norfuk: Norf'k Ailen) is a small island in the Pacific Ocean located between Australia, New Zealand, and New Caledonia, 1,412 kilometres (877 mi) directly east of mainland Australia's Evans Head, and about 900 kilometres (560 mi) from Lord Howe Island. Together with the two neighbouring islands Phillip Island and Nepean Island it forms one of the Commonwealth of Australia's external territories. At the 2016 Australian census, it had 1748 inhabitants living on a total area of about 35 km2 (14 sq mi). Its capital is Kingston.
The first settlers in Norfolk Island were East Polynesians but they were long gone when Great Britain settled it as part of its 1788 settlement of Australia. The island served as a convict penal settlement from 6 March 1788 until 5 May 1855, except for an 11-year hiatus between 15 February 1814 and 6 June 1825, when it lay abandoned. On 8 June 1856, permanent civilian residence on the island began when it was settled from Pitcairn Island. In 1914 the UK handed Norfolk Island over to Australia to administer as an external territory.The evergreen Norfolk Island pine is a symbol of the island and is pictured on its flag. Native to the island, the pine is a key export for Norfolk Island, being a popular ornamental tree on mainland Australia, (where two related species grow), and also worldwide.
HAWAII'S WOODSHOW 2017 - 25th ANNIVERSARY
Hawaii’s WoodshowTM, Na La‘au o Hawai‘i is Hawai‘i Forest Industry Association’s (HFIA) annual juried woodworking exhibition. The 2017 Hawaii’s Woodshow will run September 23, 2017 through October 8, 2017 at the beautiful Honolulu Museum of Art School, Linekona Gallery. Hours are Tuesday through Sunday from 10 am to 5 pm and admission is free.
Attendees to Hawaii’s WoodshowTM are treated to extraordinary heirloom-quality works made from Koa, Mango, Kamani, Milo, Norfolk pine, macadamia nut, Kiawe and other interesting and beautiful Hawai‘i-grown woods. Hawaii’s Woodshow encourages an appreciation for the participating artists and the materials they use. It promotes the positive role forests play in our economy and ecology. The Show calls for the use of wood from Hawaiian-grown tree species, especially those that have been planted and brought to maturity here in Hawai‘i. It serves as a reference point for the planting of native and non-native high value hardwoods for future generations.Three Jurors are selected from a broad range of expertise. Typically one juror is a nationally renowned artist from the abroad. Judging is based on “Inspiration of Design” and “Excellence of Implementation.”
This year's jurors were Mark Sfirri of Pennsylvania, John Gonczar of Washington, and Noe Tanigawa from Oahu.
A special thank you to
Hawaii's Woodshow™staff
Coordinator Andy Cole
Public Relations Marian Yasuda
Current Events Ross Willson
We thank Bill Brooks for the use of his background music throughout this video.
We thank Kyle Metcalf his camera and editing of this video.
Dynasties - The Clunies Ross Family
The Clunies-Ross family ruled the Cocos Islands in the Indian Ocean for more than 150 years. The last 'king', John Clunies-Ross, was a feudal leader who walked the islands barefoot with a dagger in his belt, and had total control over the lives of his Cocos Malay workers. His reign ended in 1984 when the islanders voted to fully integrate with Australia, and Clunies-Ross went into exile in Perth, broken and impoverished. But for this program, John and his wife Daphne agreed to return to the Cocos for a moving reunion with the islanders. This is the story of a remarkable pioneering family whose Scottish ancestors first settled this remote island paradise.
Cygnet - TAS
Cygnet town pictorial.
Photography 2014 by John Boom.
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Shiralee Executive Cottages Norfolk Island Presented by Peter Bellingham Photography
Come to beautiful Norfolk Island & relax & revive at 4 Star Self contained, Shiralee Executive Cottages. Few minutes walk to shops, cafes, restaurants & Clubs.
Norfolk Island's climate is subtropical, temperatures up to 28C in the summer, no frosts and very mild winters. The Island boasts magnificent scenery, safe swimming on beautiful Emily Bay, snorkelling, diving, fishing, walking, lots of day or night tours including Fish Fry's, Progressive Dinners, Ghost Walks, fascinating history adventures, museums, shopping, a range of eateries from cafes and takeaways to fine dining restaurants, etc etc activities too numerous to list....
63 Lyons Avenue MIANDETTA Tasmania Australia The property is worth
63 Lyons Avenue MIANDETTA Tasmania Australia The property is worth Situated in Lyons Avenue with the local Primary School just over the side fence is this large 4 bedroom home on a landscaped block of approx. 1087m2.
TVT 6: 1967 Bushfires in Hobart
TVT Channel 6: Bushfires 7th February 1967, HEC power rationalisation and introduction of Day-light Saving.
Crimes of the Century - Unabomber S01E08 | Full Documentary | True Crime
On January 22, 1998, Theodore J. Kaczynski, known as Ted Kaczynski, pleaded guilty to his 17-year reign of bombings that resulted in multiple deaths and injuries originally attributed in the media to the “Unabomber.” This documentary covers the events over the long period it took to catch the Unabomber.
Director Ridley Scott is among the executive producers of Crimes of the Century, a documentary series that delves further into a major news event that had far-reaching repercussions. Using Scott's signature visual style, each episode focuses on one event and presents viewers a virtual scene-of-the-crime vantage point by employing previously unaired footage, plus exclusive interviews with witnesses, victims, and investigators of the crimes.
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Robinson's Racing Pigs
Produced by Phillip Molnar
Sussex County Farm and Horse Show
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CLARENDON HOUSE, TASMANIA
‘Clarendon’ was built on the banks of the South Esk River and is one of the great Georgian Regency homes of Australia and is an outstanding colonial farm complex with a residence that was first established in 1817 by James Cox. In June 1812 he married Mary Connell in Parramatta New South Wales and moved to Tasmania in 1814, accepting a land grant of 700 acres and later adding another 6,000 acres to his estate which he called Clarendon after his father’s home and he took up residence there in 1816.
Mainly because of fear of bushrangers and Aborigines he moved to Launceston the next year, becoming a merchant and contractor for supplying meat to the government commissariat. The same year he became a magistrate, but by the late 1820s he resided again at ‘Clarendon’ where he ultimately began the construction of a large stone mansion, which was to replace his original timber dwelling and which was to cost him between £20,000 and £40,000.
The words above were borrowed from a blog by Geoff Ritchie regarding Tasmanian history at the following site:
Entry to Clarendon Estate includes the gardens; Clarendon Fashion Collection with precious gowns from the 1830’s to 1960’s; and the Norfolk Plains Heritage Centre, offering photo collections together with family history records and advice.
The Australian Fly Fishing Museum is now located in their new building in the grounds of Clarendon, with a vast collection of fly fishing paraphernalia the museum is well worth a visit.
The house is accessible by guided tour, the last tour of the day at 3:15pm allowing ample time to enjoy the property prior to the gate closure at 4pm. Twilight Tours are also available
The Clarendon House website is below:
Well worth a visit. Drone footage is per DJI Phantom 4 and stills are Nikon D750
This Virginia Island Is Literally Sinking Into The Sea (HBO)
“When you see fish swimming on your road, you’ve got major problems,” Dave Schulte, a marine biologist with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, told VICE News correspondent Arielle Duhaime-Ross. “That’s for sure.”
Welcome to Tangier Island, on the Virginia side of the Chesapeake Bay, where 500 residents are struggling to cope with rising waters that are claiming more of their land each year.
“I refuse to become a climate change refugee,” Tangier Island Mayor James “Ooker” Eskridge said. Yet that’s exactly what community residents will be facing later this century without intervention, Schulte projected.
Since 1850, the island has lost two-thirds of its land mass. Many residents believe building a $30 million sea wall is Tangier’s only hope of saving what remains of the island, but Congress hasn’t approved funding for the wall.
“If we don’t get a sea wall, this is what you’ll find on Tangier in a few years: remnants of homes,” Tangier Island resident Carol Pruitt-Moore said.
Schulte warns that Tangier isn’t an isolated case but rather a sign of things to come. “As climate change is impacting us, we’re going to be making these decisions over and over again all over the country,” he said. “Who are we going to move? What are we going to do?”
This segment originally aired Oct. 24, 2016, on VICE News Tonight on HBO.
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Ashmore and Cartier Islands Facts & Anthem & Flag accordion music played by Jan Oravec
The Territory of Ashmore and Cartier Islands is an uninhabited external territory of Australia consisting of four low-lying tropical islands in two separate reefs, and the 12 nautical mile territorial sea generated by the islands. The territory is located in the Indian Ocean situated on the edge of the continental shelf, about 320 km (199 mi) off the northwest coast of Australia and 144 km (89 mi) south of the Indonesian island of Rote.
The territory is administered from Canberra by the Department of Infrastructure and Regional Development, which is also responsible for the administration of the territories of Christmas Island, Cocos (Keeling) Islands, the Coral Sea Islands, Jervis Bay Territory and Norfolk Island.
There is no economic activity in the Territory. As Ashmore Reef is the closest point of Australian territory to Indonesia, it was a popular target for people smugglers transporting asylum seekers to Australia despite its only wells being infected with cholera or contaminated and undrinkable.Once they had landed on Ashmore, asylum seekers could claim to have entered Australian territory and request to be processed as refugees. The use of Ashmore for this purpose created great notoriety during late 2001, when refugee arrivals became a major political issue in Australia. As Australia was not the country of first asylum for these boat people, the Australian Government did not consider that it had a responsibility to accept them
A number of things were done to discourage the practice such as attempting to have the people smugglers arrested in Indonesia; the so-called Pacific Solution of processing them in third countries; the boarding and forced turnaround of the boats by Australian military forces, and finally excising Ashmore and many other small islands from the Australian migration zone. Two boatloads of asylum seekers were each detained for several days in the lagoon at Ashmore after failed attempts by the Royal Australian Navy to turn them back to Indonesia in October 2001.
TASMANIA THE GATHERING OF THE NORFOLK PLAINS
Tasmania's Norfolk Plains were named to acknowledge the Norfolk Islanders expelled from the island in 1813, and resettled in this part of Tasmania (the area comprising the towns and rural properties around Longford, Cressy, Bishopsbourne, Illawarra and Perth).
A Gathering on the Norfolk Plains was an event held across the weekend of 1 -- 3 March 2013. The weekend was a wonderful success with thousands of people came to the Norfolk Plains to enjoy the activities which included a community BBQ on the Village Green, Old Time Music Hall, Descendants Day, a graveyard performance, informative, historic displays, art exhibitions, a community photograph and the launch of a commemorative book and medallion.
Gears in the Woods DVD by Sunday River Productions
Steam logging in the West! AVAILABLE AT:
See how steam and steel conquered mountain grades to move giant logs out of the woods of the West. Ten logging railroads from Arizona to British Columbia use every type of engine imaginable to get the wood out, from giant articulateds to Shays, Heislers, and Climaxes. The trains climb up canyons and 5% to 6% grades to get to the high camps. Then, with logs piled high, the crew sweats to keep the brakes tied down so she won’t run away as the load heads downhill. This sweeping survey gives a bird’s eye view of an era when the tall timber of the west was moved by steam.
Ansons Bay
A great holiday conglomeration of shacks on the shoreline of Ansons Bay in north east Tasmania. A populat destination for fishermen who want to visit the continetla shelf of the east coast.
EXCLUSIVE: Mermaid Discovery
A breakthrough discovery -- probably one of the biggest in the last few hundred years, may finally put to rest the question of whether aquatic humanoids, colloquially known as mermaids, really exist.
Australian Snippets #5_Fur Seals
The Fur Seal colony at the western end of Kangaroo Island, South Australia.
Wild Cockatoo Health at Dee Why Beach Sydney 260610
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Australian avian vet Dr Ross Perry shows you free flying Sulphur Crested Cockatoos enjoying Norfolk Island Pine Nuts at Dee Why Beach on Sydney's Northern Beaches. We can learn lots about caring for birds by studying those that are free. Dr Ross Perry also points out some interesting locations to snorkel Sydney when the sea is calm. 260610