Introduction
The flag of Norfolk Island is a vertical triband of green, white and green with a Norfolk Island pine in the centre.
The white band is wider than the green ones, and the tree is drawn to overlap into both.
Meaning & Symbolism
The tree is Araucaria heterophylla, the Norfolk Island pine, which grows nowhere naturally except here and is the single thing the island is known for worldwide.
The layout deliberately echoes the flag of Canada, green for the pine and the vegetation instead of red for the maple.
History of the Norfolk Island Flag
The flag was adopted on 17 January 1980, the year the Norfolk Island Act gave the island limited self government.
Much of the population descends from the Bounty mutineers, moved here from Pitcairn in 1856 when that island became too small for them. The Norfuk language they still speak mixes eighteenth century English with Tahitian.
Curiosities
- The tree on the flag grows naturally nowhere else on earth.
- The layout is a deliberate echo of the Canadian flag, with a pine instead of a maple leaf.
- Much of the population descends from the mutineers of the Bounty, moved from Pitcairn in 1856.
- The local language, Norfuk, mixes eighteenth century English with Tahitian.
- The flag arrived in 1980 with the island first taste of self government.
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