​World politics, forks in the road, happenstance, coincidence. Call it what you will, but the arrival of colonial settlers on Norfolk Island was the fortunate outcome – for us more than 230 years later, anyway – of all these things. It might not have been so fortunate, though, for those unlucky enough to be caught up in the British penal system of ...

​Who in the world celebrates what is normally a late-summer Harvest Home in the springtime, calls it Thanksgiving, and doesn't traditionally serve turkey at the feast?Norfolk Islanders, that's who. They like to do things a little differently.Thanksgiving Day arrived on Norfolk Island, becoming part of the cultural fabric of its people, by a somewha...