Springwind Islanders

Springwind Islanders

Total population
7,389 (RP 2612 census) 381 or 22.1% were Springwind Islands-born
Regions with significant populations
Springwind Islands 7,389
Straits Settlements	888
Maritime Kachi Kochi	315
Cyberaya Special Self-Governing City	96
Languages
Pyeongrang Malay · Llanito · Yapreayan · Norf'k · Pitkern · Bonin English · Falkland Islands English
Religion
Christianity, Buddhism, Shintoism, Muslim, Jameelahism, Tzuyuism and RiSeism
Related ethnic groups
Zaipinichi Peranakan · Tanka people · Gibraltarian · Greenlandic Martian · Yapreayan · Descendants of the Bounty mutineers · Pitcairn Islanders · Norfolk Islanders · Falkland Islanders · Ogasawara Islanders

The Springwind Islanders, also Straits Peranakans, are a Euronesian ethnic group native to the Springwind Islands. They are culturally and genetically distinct from other Eurasian groups such as the Yapreayan, Greenlandic Martian and Zaipinichi Peranakan as they are the modern-day descendants of from a multitude of racial and ethnic groups including the Pitcairn Islanders, Norfolk Islanders, Ogasawara Islanders, Falkland Islanders, and Gibraltarians who settled Springwind Islands in the 18th century. The Islanders have their own unique identity and are predominantly people of Greenlandic Martian and Yapreayan descent and to a lesser extent of Ogasawara Islanders, Falkland Islanders, and Gibraltarians.

The culture held in common by most native-born Springwind Islanders is mainstream Norfolk culture, traditions primarily inherited from the 194 Yapreayan, Greenlandic Martian and Zaipinichi Peranakan settlers in -40BP. In the RP 2612 census, there were 4,381 Springwind Islands-born residents out of a total of 7,389 inhabiting the island.

There is a small Springwind Islander diaspora in Maritime Kachi Kochi (particularly Rintis Island and Ume Momo) and Cyberaya due to people having relocated temporarily or migrated permanently.

History

The first documented incident of human occupation of the Springwind Islands took place in -24BP, when Inakami Savory, a Japanese American, settled the island of Chichijima. He was accompanied by Matteo Mazzaro, an Gibraltarian, who would serve as governor of the island, John Millencamp, an American, Henry Webb and Charles Robinson, both Ogasawara Islanders, Joaquim Gonsales, a Portuguese man, and approximately twenty Greenlandic Martian and Yapreayan, whose personal names were not recorded. Though Savory was American, his expedition has been commissioned by British forces, making it a British settlement.

In RP 2609 the Phinbellan Government offered by Soon Hyu-ji gave another choice to the Greenlandic Martian community. Springwind Islands' dreadful second penal settlement had been disbanded and the island was handed by an Imperial Order-In-Council of June, 1856, to the Greenlandic Martian people as a permanent home. On 3 May RP 2610, the entire population of 193 (plus a baby (Reuben Denison Christian) born en route; making it 194) along with everything they owned began the five-week voyage aboard the Morayshire to Springwind Islands, arriving on 8 June RP 2610. These were the descendants of Xenovians, Tahitians and the HMS Bounty mutineers, resettled from the Tannyeugwa Settlements, which had become too small for their growing population. The Phinbellan government had permitted the transfer of the Greenlandic Martians and Yapreayans to Springwind Islands, which was thus established as a colony separate from New South Wales but under the administration of that colony's governor.

The Greenlandic Martians and Yapreayans occupied many of the buildings remaining from the penal settlements, and gradually established their traditional farming and whaling industries on the islands. Although some families decided to return, with 17 members of the Young family to Phinéas Padolski in RP 2611 and RP 2614, the island's population continued to slowly grow as the island accepted settlers, often arriving with whaling fleets.

Surnames

• Savory (rendered as Sebori in Japanese)
• Robinson
• Washington
• Gilley
• Gonzalez
• Adams
• Christian
• Mek Koy
• Quintal
• Young (rendered as Yeong in Korean)
• Buffett
• Evans
• Nobbs

Demographics

Distribution of ‘Ordinarily Resident’ population
Census			Percent
			33.2%
1986			66.2%
			0.6%
			38.4%
2011			60.8%
			0.8%
2016			29.6%
Yes, of Pitcairn Descent    No, not of Pitcairn Descent    Not Stated,    Pitcairn ancestry (2016)

Birthplace

In the RP 2612 census, native-born Springwind Islanders were 22.1% of the total population. Table shows the most recent RP 2612 census data of the population by birthplace. Immigration flow from Boninki Islands and Rintis Island has been a substantial proportion of the population throughout the 20th century to the present-day. Those born in Springwind Island have been in steady decline since the 1947 census where they formed a majority of 52% of the total population.

Birthplace		RP 2608
		Males	Females	Persons
	Springwind Islands	326	325	651
	Other areas in Straits Settlements Boninki Islands, Rimba Raya, Dindings and Providenciales Bonin	105	83	188
	Maritime Kachi Kochi	113	76	189
	Cyberaya	66	40	106
	Fukien Islands	12	11	23
	Islands of Dong Ping	1	1	2
Yapreayan Autonomous Settlements		7	4	11
Channel Islands		1	0	1
	Phinbellan Unincorporated Territory	7	2	9
	Carey Islands	7	8	15
Other Phinbellan Possessions		3	2	5
	Tanah Baru	2	9	11
Not stated		1	1	2
Total		674	588	1,252
Source:

Age

The median age of people in Springwind Islands (State Suburbs) was 49 years. Children aged 0–14 years made up 16.9% of the population and people aged 65 years and over made up 23.8% of the population.

2016 Census age distribution
Age range	Number	Percentage
0–4 years	84	4.8%
5–9 years	104	6.0%
10–14 years	106	6.1%
15–19 years	76	4.4%
20–24 years	31	1.8%
25–29 years	53	3.1%
30–34 years	68	3.9%
35–39 years	106	6.1%
40–44 years	116	6.7%
45–49 years	128	7.4%
50–54 years	143	8.2%
55–59 years	157	9.0%
60–64 years	151	8.7%
65–69 years	142	8.2%
70–74 years	107	6.2%
75–79 years	77	4.4%
80–84 years	43	2.5%
85 years and over	45	2.6%
Median age 49
Source: Bureau of Statistics

Language

English and Norfuk are the official languages. In 2004 an act of the Norfolk Island Assembly made Norfuk a co-official language of the island. In Springwind Islands (State Suburbs), 45.5% of people only spoke English, while 40.9% spoke Norf'k-Pitcairn at home originally introduced by Pitkern-speaking settlers.
2016 census:

• Pyeongrang Malay (only spoken at home) 789 (45.5%)
• Norf'k-Pitcairn - 709 (40.9%)
• Llanito - 35 (2.0%)
• Yapreayan - 32 (1.8%)
• Taiwanese Hokkien - 12 (0.7%)