Welcome to Norfolk Island National Park

Norfolk Island National Park welcomes visitors to explore its stunning scenery and rich diversity of bird life. From bushwalks beneath the planet's tallest tree ferns to barbecues overlooking spectacular ocean cliffs, there is something for everyone.

As well as protecting rare native species such as the endangered green parrot and Norfolk pine, the park is a major drawcard for visitors, and makes a significant contribution to the island's tourism industry.

Norfolk Island is located in the south-west Pacific Ocean, approximately 1700 km east of Sydney and 1100 kilometres north-west of Auckland. Norfolk Island National Park covers 650 hectares, divided between the Mount Pitt Section on Norfolk Island and the entire neighbouring Phillip Island. Norfolk Island Botanic Garden covers 5.5 hectares and is located adjacent to the Mount Pitt Section of the Park.

The Norfolk Island group provides an important link between tropical and temperate oceanic island environments. Their remote location, coupled with colonisation by plants and animals dispersed over vast distances of ocean, means that they are important for their value as habitats for endemic species, habitats and breeding areas for species with limited distribution and migratory species including large colonies of breeding seabirds, and for their unique vegetation.

Norfolk and Phillip Islands are almost completely volcanic in origin, arising from the Pacific Ocean roughly 2.3-3 million years ago as masses of hot basalt. They form the highest point of the submerged Norfolk Ridge which stretches from New Zealand to New Caledonia. The Islands feature a range of dramatic landscapes, including the subtropical and viney hardwood forests of the Park and Botanic Garden, the green rolling plains of the Kingston settlement, spectacular coastal cliffs and skylines dominated by majestic Norfolk Island pines.