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Pitcairn Island
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Pit·cairn Island  (ptkârn)
A volcanic island of the southern Pacific Ocean east-southeast of Tahiti. Discovered by a British navigator in 1767, it was settled in 1790 by mutineers from H.M.S. Bounty and has been administered by the British since 1839. Descendants of the original settlers still live on the island.

Pitcairn Island [pɪtˈkɛən ˈpɪtkɛən]
n
(Placename) an island in the S Pacific: forms with other islands a UK Overseas Territory; uninhabited until the landing in 1790 of the mutineers of H.M.S. Bounty and their Tahitian companions. Pop.: 54 (1999 est.). Area: 4.6 sq. km (1.75 sq. miles)


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0824826981 Reef and shore fishes of the South Pacific; New Caledonia to Tahiti and the Pitcairn Islands.
A number of the recent sexual fence convictions against several ale residents of the Pitcairn Islands resulted from the maintenance of what have been described as 'consensual' sexual relationships between the men and the girls, many of whom were aged between twelve and fifteen years at the time the offences were committed.
It's a very isolated life," said Herbert Ford, the Director of the Pitcairn Islands Study Centre in Angwin, California.
 
 
 
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