Last Tuesday March 6, Norfolk Island celebrated Foundation Day. This public holiday commemorates the day in which Lieutenant Gidley King and accompanying settlers arrived on Norfolk Island to establish the settlement at Kingston. This took place just weeks after the arrival of the First Fleet at Port Jackson in 1788.
Every year locals perform a re-enactment of this landing, complete with authentic props and costumes. Watching the re-enactment take place is fascinating and surely serves the imagination well to better appreciate the circumstances under which the brave pioneers established settlement in such remoteness!
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