Flag of Norfolk Island
Officially Territory of Norfolk Island
Locally Norf'k Ailen
What the flag looks like
Three vertical bands of green, white and green, the white band slightly wider, with a green Norfolk Island pine in the center.
What it means
The Norfolk Island pine is the island's emblem, a tall native conifer, and the green stands for the island's plant life.
How to remember it
Norfolk Island
is Nigeria's
green-white-green with a tall pine tree planted in the middle, the way Canada
plants a maple leaf.
Fun facts
- Many islanders descend from the Bounty mutineers and their Tahitian companions, who moved from Pitcairn Island in 1856.
- Australia abolished the island's Legislative Assembly and its self-government in 2015.
Norfolk Island at a glance
- Status
- External territory of Australia
- Sovereign state
- Australia
- Capital
- Kingston
- Region
- Australian external territory
- Population
- 2,188
- Area
- 35 km²
- Languages
- English, Norfuk
- Currency
- Australian dollar ($)
- Flag adopted
- 1980
Flags often confused with Norfolk Island
- Nigeria: Nigeria and Norfolk Island are both green-white-green vertical stripes. Nigeria's flag is plain; Norfolk Island has a green pine tree on the white band.
- Canada: Canada and Norfolk Island both have a wide white central band between colored side bands with a plant symbol in the middle. Canada is red with a red maple leaf; Norfolk Island is green with a green pine tree.