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Norfolk Island, now one of Australia's external territories, was used as a convict settlement and farming colony. It was established as a penal colony within two months of the arrival of the First Fleet in New South Wales, and the successful farming there helped to sustain the New South Wales colony and prevent starvation until crops at Sydney and Parramatta could be properly established.

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