Title: Can small islands tell large(r) stories? The microcosm of Nepean Island, Norfolk Island archipelago
Abstract: Norfolk Island, South Pacific, provides linguists a near laboratory case study in naming, language contact, and environmental management.Tlie two languages spoken on the island, Norfk -the language of the descendants of the Pitcairn Islanders -and English, are both used in place-naming.This short note analyses the toponyms of Nepean Island, a small uninhabited island 800 metres south of Norfolk.It questions whether Nepean is a microcosm of naming behaviour for the rest of the Norfolk macrocosm.For its size, Nepean contains a large number of toponyms.The paper suggests the uninliabited nature of Nepean may have resulted in fewer commemorative anthroponymic toponyms, a situation unlike namiug patterns ki the rest of the archipelago.Nepean offers a study of naming a small no-man's land as compared to naming a larger occupied land.