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Reimagining Norfolk Island’s
Kingston and Arthur’s Vale
Historic Area

Norf’k Ailen gat plenti defrent lieya a’ hestri. Norf’k Ailen es speshl said nort uni kos o’ dem Pohleniishn salan en em kohnwik bin ya b’for, bat kos o’ dem huu kam tu Norf’k fram Pitkern. Fetchen dems oen kalcha en laengwij lorngfe dem en paasen et daun thruu dems faemli. Dems yuuniik heretij naewa bin gat de siem foekas wen laanen baut Daun’Taun. Daa piis’ Norf’k UNESCO se Werl Heretij List.

Riithinken Daun’Taun es wan Australian Research Council jorb fe luk orn wieh laanen’ salan baut’ lewen heretij said el miek’ kalcha staan aut ala bild et ap.

Norfolk Island has many layers of history. The island is significant not only for its Polynesian settlement and convict heritage, but also for the distinctive culture and language of its Pitcairn Settler descendants. However, Pitcairn Settler heritage has long been downplayed in the presentation and interpretation of Norfolk Island’s UNESCO World Heritage-listed Kingston and Arthur’s Vale Historic Area (KAVHA).

Reimagining KAVHA was an Australian Research Council-funded project which ran from 2021–24 and aimed to explore the role living heritage sites play in resisting or reinforcing cultural injustices. 

Zines as community archive

Learn more about how zines can be understood as a form of community archiving practice.

Read about participants’ connections to the former site of the Paradise Hotel.

Mapping living heritage

Find out what our participatory mapping activities revealed about heritage management in Kingston.

Aa Norf’k Wieh

An introduction to a Pitcairn descendant epistemology and the value of Indigenous storywork.

The symbolic violence of heritage consultancy

Discover more about the impacts of heritage consultancy on Norfolk Islanders.

Cartography and conversation

Explore the importance of conversations with participants during participatory mapping activities.

Zine-making for critical cultural justice inquiry

Read up on the different activities we used during zine-making workshops.

Final report

A summary of the project’s aims, methods and outputs, including recommendations for different stakeholders.

Zines

Check out all 8 titles in the Reimagining KAVHA zine series, co-created by the research team and participants.