Exploring the beauty of Norfolk Island

Derek Barry
December 15 2019 - 1:00pm

Norfolk Island is not convenient to Mount Isa, but when your significant other moves there for work, there's no option but to plane-hop and cross half a continent and then half an ocean to get there. A South Pacific haven with a New South Wales postcode (2899), Norfolk is a slice of paradise directly two hours east of Byron Bay. It's tiny, 35 sq km all up, and isolated - the only landmass on the submarine Norfolk Ridge that links New Zealand with New Caledonia.

Derek Barry

Derek Barry

Editor, the North West Star

Editor of the North West Star Mount Isa since January 2016. Prior to that, an editor at several regional southern Queensland newspapers. Passionate about telling local stories. Comes with a strange accent to due an Irish accident of birth.

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