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Flying over the Pacific to Norfolk Island
Norfolk Island is a tiny, external territory of Australia located way out in the Pacific Ocean. It lies 1412 km (877 m) directly east of Evan's Head which is on our New South Wales east coast.
The first known settlers on Norfolk Island were East Polynesian people, but they had already departed when Great Britain settled it as part of their 1788 arrival to these lands.
Today, there are around 1800 people who call the island home.
Native to the island, the evergreen Norfolk Island pine is a symbol of the island and features on the flag. The pine is a popular ornamental tree here in Australia and now worldwide I believe.
"Araucaria heterophylla" is a distinctive conifer, a member of the ancient and now disjointly distributed family Araucariaceae. As its vernacular name Norfolk Island pine implies, the tree is endemic to Norfolk Island, a small island in the Pacific Ocean between Australia, New Zealand and New Caledonia.
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Technically, JungleDragon uses the ISO list of countries, as found here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ISO_3166_country_codes
That table does list Norfolk as a country in the sense that it has a country name, flag, country code, internet domain extension, etc. You're right though that its sovereignty is in the hands of Australia. So it seems one can be a country, but not sovereign. Ah well :)
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