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
