Nordic Australians are Australian citizens whose origins are found in any of the
Nordic countries
The Nordic countries (also known as the Nordics or ''Norden''; ) are a geographical and cultural region in Northern Europe, as well as the Arctic Ocean, Arctic and Atlantic Ocean, North Atlantic oceans. It includes the sovereign states of Denm ...
, or people from any of these countries who live in Australia.
Danish immigrants made up the largest group by far.
In the Australian censuses, citizens of Nordic background are named as
Scandinavian Australians; although Finland is significantly different culturally from Scandinavian countries and as such is not usually included among them, it is still counted as one for the sake of statistics.
Countries of origin
This is a list of the countries of origin. The numbers indicate the people born in their home countries and people born in Australia of Nordic descent.
Icelandic Australians
These citizens are Australian of
Icelandic ancestry, or persons born in
Iceland
Iceland is a Nordic countries, Nordic island country between the Atlantic Ocean, North Atlantic and Arctic Oceans, on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge between North America and Europe. It is culturally and politically linked with Europe and is the regi ...
residing in Australia. The largest emigration from Iceland to Australia took place in the late 1960's, when the Australian government offered immigrants financial assistance at a time when the employment situation in Iceland was bleak.
There were 980 residents who reported Icelandic ancestry in the 2011 census.
They form the smallest part of the wider Nordic Australian group usually included in the census.
See also
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Europeans in Oceania
Age of Discovery, European exploration and settlement of Oceania began in the 16th century, starting with the Spanish people, Spanish (Crown of Castile, Castilian) landings and shipwrecks in the Mariana Islands, east of the Philippines. This was ...
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Immigration to Australia
The Australian continent was first settled when ancestors of Indigenous Australians arrived via the islands of Maritime Southeast Asia and New Guinea over 50,000 years ago.
European colonisation began in 1788 with the establishment of a B ...
References
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