| Author(s) |
Nash, Joshua
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| Publication Date |
2012-06
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| Abstract |
<p>Norfolk Island, a remote isolated island archipelago and external territory of Australia in the southwest Pacific Ocean 1700 km east of the Australian mainland, provides toponymists and linguists with a laboratory case study in naming, toponymy, and language change and contact. This article looks at the toponyms of Nepean Island, a small uninhabited island 800 metres to the south of Norfolk Island's administrative centre Kingston (Figure 1), and questions whether Nepean is a microcosm of naming behaviour, which is representative of the rest of the Norfolk macrocosm. What makes Norfolk Island interesting for linguists is its diglossic language situation; Norf 'k–the language of the descendents of the Bounty mutineers and their Tahitian counterparts–and English, are both spoken on the island and both are used in place-naming.</p>
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| Citation |
Placenames Australia, 2012(June), p. 1-9
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| ISSN |
1836-7976
1836-7968
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| Language |
en
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| Publisher |
Placenames Australia, Inc
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| Title |
Norfolk Island Toponymy: The Microcosm of Nepean Island
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| Type of document |
Journal Article
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| Entity Type |
Publication
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