Norfolk Island News

Integrated WAN Optimisation technology accelerates all applications and reduces satellite costs by $80,000 16 April, 2009 09:06 Sydney, AUST., - 16th April, 2009 - Expand Networks, the Leader in Optimising WANs for Branch Office Consolidation and Virtualisation today announced that Norfolk Telecom, Norfolk Island's sole telecommunications provider, ...

Norfolk Telecom, the sole telecommunications provider for the remote Pacific Ocean island of Norfolk Island , has completed a WAN optimisation project for its satellite Internet connection resulting in a 100 per cent increase in its available bandwidth.

The old Esplanade train station could be reopened and new recreational facilities built as part of a $2.6 million upgrading of Fremantlea s Esplanade Reserve, a final plan has revealed.

More than 80 holidaymakers had to make last-minute alternative Easter arrangements after the chartered international flight out of Tauranga to Norfolk Island was suddenly cancelled.

Norfolk Island's infamous ghosts will be serenaded by angelic choruses during the 5th annual Norfolk Island Opera in the Ruins Festival from February 23 to 27.

Now that the holidays are over, can I put my new Norfolk pine outdoors? The common name Norfolk Island pine gives you a good clue to what you have - a tropical native of the south Pacific's Norfolk Island and ...

Sections of Norfolk Islands coastline is under severe pressure from overgrazing and is falling into the sea.

Many common holiday plants will grow either in pots on patios or can be planted in local flowerbeds.

EMOTIONAL REUNION: rescued yachtie Rewi Kemp hugs his wife, Janet, at Auckland Airport.

Both family and searchers have described the survival of lone New Zealand yachtie Rewi Kemp as a miracle after his boat was smashed on rocks near Norfolk Island.

Q: One of my friends gave me a Norfolk Island pine for Christmas. She decorated it and everything.

While a Christmas tree hardly seems worth bringing home these days if it doesn't tower over all the furniture and take up most of the living room, the original concept started by Queen Victoria was for a ...

Every year I get questions about the efficacy of buying a live -- meaning with roots in a pot -- Christmas tree.

Q: I would like to have a living Christmas tree in our office this year. I don't want a huge tree, so I was thinking of a dwarf Alberta spruce in a 1-gallon pot.

These usually come sprayed with glitter and decorated with a few ornaments. At first I dismissed them as something that might not live until Dec.

Salt hay, straw or oak leaves are excellent. The mulch will prevent heaving during the alternate freeze-thaw cycle.