Pitcairn Islands
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Pitcairn Islands a British dependency comprising a group of volcanic islands in the South Pacific, east of French Polynesia. Pitcairn Island was discovered in 1767, and remained uninhabited until settled in 1790 by mutineers from HMS
Bounty and their Tahitian companions, some of whose descendants still live there.
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Society Expeditions discovers shipwreck near Pitcairn Island; will raise anchor in celebration of Pitcairn's 200th anniversary.
PR Newswire; 2/5/1990; 700+ words
; ...immense statues -- of Easter Island and make Zodiac landings on uninhabited Ducie and Henderson islands. The 21-day expedition continues with the Austral Islands to explore open-air temples...Papeete, travelers visit Tubuai Island, the first settlement in...mutineers before they made ...
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Pitcairn Islands Tourism Plan OK'd
News Wire article from: AP Online; 10/31/2001; ; 452 words
; ...than 50 people live on Pitcairn, a British territory made up of four tiny islands in the Pacific half...10-room lodge on Pitcairn Island, 10 chalets on the...and particularly the islands' bird life. Unesco has declared one island, Henderson, which is 125 miles northwest of ...
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PITCAIRN ISLANDS OPENING UP TO TOURISTS.
News Wire article from: AsiaPulse News; 5/7/2009; 520 words
; ADAMSTOWN, Pitcairn, May 7 Asia Pulse - A New Zealand...shipping company is offering a trip to Pitcairn, the remote British Island located East of French Polynesia...two-day, 480 km boat trip to Pitcairn. Pitcairn has just about 5 square...
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Abuse Cases Roil Tiny Pitcairn Island; Sexual Misconduct Charges Shine Unwelcome Light on Mutineers' Descendants
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 9/26/2004; ; 700+ words
; Pitcairn Island, home to the descendants of...killing his wife and child on the island, according to Herbert Ford, the director of the Pitcairn Island Study Center near San Francisco. Pitcairn, lying midway between Peru...
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Trouble in paradise On Pitcairn Island, allegations and defenses
Newspaper article from: International Herald Tribune; 10/20/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...bearing the slogan ''Pitcairn Island.'' The lawyers have...meeting of the Pitcairn Island Council. A few fortunate...had been seduced by a Pitcairn man, and asked the...Steve Christian, run Pitcairn Island. He is the island...
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Guilty: the verdicts that shamed Pitcairn Island Six men - one-eighth of the population of a remote British colony - were yesterday convicted of sex crimes stretching back for at least 40 years. Kathy Marks reports from a community in shock
Newspaper article from: Belfast Telegraph; 10/26/2004; 700+ words
; ...sweltering courtroom on Pitcairn Island, they were exposed...world to promote the island. After he was charged...stationed temporarily on Pitcairn in 1999. Ms Cox...grown up on the island and now live in...aged woman on Pitcairn claims "it was...
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'Lost Paradise': The Dark Secrets Of Pitcairn Island
Transcript from: NPR Fresh Air; 4/28/2009; ; 700+ words
; ...Paradise': The Dark Secrets Of Pitcairn Island Host: TERRY GROSS Time 09...this tiny, little, uninhabited island, Pitcairn, which was very, very, small...burnt the Bounty off the coast of Pitcairn in order to cover their tracks...
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Pitcairn Islands men face wait for decision on whether they face prison
News Wire article from: AP Worldstream; 10/19/2004; ; 581 words
; ...for alleged sex attacks on tiny Pitcairn island _ home to descendants of the Bounty...applicability of English law on Pitcairn" is held and ruled on, British...ruling is expected to come after the Pitcairn Supreme Court rules on the same...
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Sex trials of Pitcairn Island men to be held on remote mid-Pacific island
News Wire article from: AP Worldstream; 6/30/2004; 482 words
; ...WELLINGTON, New Zealand Seven Pitcairn Island men will face trial on...assault charges, the Pitcairn Supreme Court ruled Wednesday...and New Zealand. Many Pitcairn Islanders are descendants...Christian who settled on the island in 1790. Copyright 2004...
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LEAD: Pitcairn Island sex-crime trial to proceed.
Newspaper article from: Asian Political News; 10/4/2004; 700+ words
; ...COURT RULING TO PROCEED) Pitcairn Island Mayor Steve Christian...reported Wednesday. The Pitcairn Supreme Court dismissed...sex is a part of the island's tradition and they...by jailing the men who Pitcairn locals consider the...
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Pitcairn Islands
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
Pitcairn Islands a British dependency comprising a group of volcanic islands in the South Pacific, east of French Polynesia. Pitcairn Island was discovered in 1767, and remained uninhabited until settled in 1790 by mutineers from HMS Bounty and...
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Pitcairn Island
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Pitcairn Island volcanic island (2005 est. pop. 45...The first British Pacific Islands possession (1838), the island is officially administered...New Zealand as part of the Pitcairn Islands dependency, which includes...
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Pitcairn
Encyclopedia entry from: World Press Encyclopedia
...Literacy rate: N/A Pitcairn is located in the South...Zealand. The remote island's place in history...Newspapers," Pitcairn Island Web site. Available...Available from . "Pitcairn," CIA World Fact Book...pn Policies," Pitcairn Islands. Available from . Jenny...
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John Pitcairn
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...officer in the American Revolution. Major Pitcairn commanded the advance guard of the British...later killed in the battle of Bunker Hill. Pitcairn Island is named for his son Robert Pitcairn (c.1747-c.1770), who as a midshipman...
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oceanic islands
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to the Earth
...Pacific; the rumbling volcanic islands of Hawaii, the Azores and...curious about world geography: Pitcairn, Easter Island (Rapanui), Heard Island...classification is that it is based on island origins. By far the majority of oceanic islands have a volcanic origin but...century ...
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