| LC control no. | sh2015002178 |
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| Geographic heading | Pitcairn Island (Pitcairn Islands) |
| Geographic subdivision usage | Pitcairn Islands--Pitcairn Island |
| Variant(s) | Occas Island (Pitcairn Islands) Pitcairn's Island (Pitcairn Islands) |
| See also | Islands--Pitcairn Islands |
| Found in | Work cat.: 72000281: Murray, T.B. Pitcairn : the island, the people, and the pastor, 1972. Britannica online, Sept. 4, 2015 (Pitcairn Island, isolated volcanic island in the south-central Pacific Ocean, 1,350 miles (2,170 km) southeast of Tahiti. It is the only inhabited island of the British overseas territory of Pitcairn, Henderson, Ducie, and Oeno Islands, which is commonly referred to as the Pitcairn Islands or as Pitcairn.) GEOnet, Sept. 4, 2015 (Pitcairn Island; variants: Occas Island; Pitcairn; Pitcairn's Island; island; Pitcairn Islands; 25°04ʹ00ʺS, 130°05ʹ00ʺW (-25.066667, -130.083333)) Wikipedia, Sept. 4, 2015 (The Pitcairn Islands (Pitkern: Pitkern Ailen), officially named the Pitcairn Group of Islands, are a group of four volcanic islands in the southern Pacific Ocean that form the last British Overseas Territory in the Pacific. The four islands - Pitcairn, Henderson, Ducie, and Oeno - are spread over several hundred miles of ocean and have a total land area of about 47 square kilometres (18 sq mi). Only Pitcairn, the second largest island measuring about 3.6 kilometres (2.2 mi) from east to west, is inhabited.) The world factbook, via WWW, Sept. 4, 2015 (under Pitcairn Islands: Pitcairn Island was discovered in 1767 by the British and settled in 1790 by the Bounty mutineers and their Tahitian companions. Pitcairn was the first Pacific island to become a British colony (in 1838) and today remains the last vestige of that empire in the South Pacific; only the larger island of Pitcairn is inhabited but it has no port or natural harbor) |
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