NORFOLK ISLAND, SOUTH PACIFIC: AN EMPIRICAL ECOLINGUISTIC CASE STUDY JOSHUA NASH University of Adelaide The linguistic ecology of Norfolk Island provides an illustrative case study of the interaction between ecological and linguistic principles. Norfolk Island, an external territory of Australia, is located in the South Pacific. The language of Norfolk Island, Norf‘k, is spoken by around four hundred people who are descendants of the Bounty mutineers and their Tahitian wives. In light of current theory in ecolinguistics and on research in the Norf‘k language, this paper aims to: 1. Give a brief background into the history of ecolinguistics and its relevance to Norf‘k and Norfolk Island; 2. Identify suitable levels of analysis, e.g. lexicon, morphosyntax and phonology, appropriate to empirical observation in Norf‘k; 3. Show how traditional linguistic analyses in section two can lead to more precise language planning and language policy tools in the social domain of language use and educational objectives on Norfolk Island; and 4. Demonstrate how long term engagement with an isolated and specific speech community such as Norfolk Island can lead to positive results for the academy in terms of methodological refinement and development in ecolinguistics at the same time as being sensitive to the interests and priorities of the speakers of an endangered language.