A second transportation The early colony of Norfolk Island
A view of Sydney on Norfolk Island by John Eyre, c 1805. The first settlement on Norfolk Island was named after its parent town in New South Wales. Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales. Call number V8/Norf I/1
Just three weeks after European colonists arrived in Port Jackson, New South Wales, a small group of convicts and officials underwent a second transportation – to uninhabited Norfolk Island, more than 1,600 kilometres away, where the endemic flora and fauna soon bore the brunt of this sudden human influx. The following extract is from the new book Australia & the Pacific: A history by Ian Hoskins.
