relatively close to the north, also reached Norfolk Island. Human occupation must have ceased at least a few hundred years before Europeans arrived in the late 18th century. Ultimately, the relative isolation of the island, and its poor horticultural environment, were not favourable to long-term settlement.

First penal settlement (1774-1814)

The first European known to have sighted and landed on the island, Captain James Cook, arrived on 10 October 1774,

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