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NORFOLK ISLAND
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An island territory of Australia in the Pacific Ocean off the eastern coast of Australia; formerly a British penal colony
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
island (a land mass (smaller than a continent) that is surrounded by water)
Holonyms ("Norfolk Island" is a part of...):
Australia; Commonwealth of Australia (a nation occupying the whole of the Australian continent; Aboriginal tribes are thought to have migrated from southeastern Asia 20,000 years ago; first Europeans were British convicts sent there as a penal colony)
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