This is what 911 delivery to Norfolk Island looked like back in 1982

"ToyDeathbot" (ToyDeathbot) 08/22/2013 at 09:31 • Filed to: None

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Read it here

William Byrd > ToyDeathbot 08/22/2013 at 09:34

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That is pretty fascinating. That island is really in the middle of nowhere.

ASheep > ToyDeathbot 08/22/2013 at 10:40

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I was on Norfolk not that long ago, they still deliver pretty much EVERYTHING to the island like that. Big/expensive things like fire trucks have been flown in by the RAAF in a Globemaster, but everything else comes in on the little boats. They are basically remakes of the old whaling boats used by the original occupants of the island. They get towed out to the cargo ships by a fishing boat (or any boat that happens to be around), stuff gets loaded onto them with a crane, and then they get towed back in.

When I was there, I saw a pair of Toyota Hiace vans being unloaded, they attached two of the old boats together with a big platform, and the two vans were lashed down on them, and towed in by a dude in a small fishing boat. A crane parked on the jetty lifted them up, just like in the picture shown. It was amazing.

Milky > ToyDeathbot 08/22/2013 at 11:28

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This was fun to learn about ..... btw this photo is on the islands wiki page.