Pitcairn Islands, officially the Pitcairn, Henderson, Ducie and Oeno Islands, is a group of four volcanic islands in the southern Pacific Ocean that form the sole British Overseas Territory in the Pacific Ocean.
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33 Facts About Pitcairn Islands
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The islands nearest to the Pitcairn Islands are Mangareva to the west and Easter Island to the east.
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Pitcairn Islands is the least populous national jurisdiction in the world.
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The Pitcairn Islands Islanders are a biracial ethnic group descended mostly from nine Bounty mutineers and a handful of Tahitian consorts – as is still apparent from the surnames of many of the islanders.
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Pitcairn Islands named them La Encarnacion and San Juan Bautista ("Saint John the Baptist"), respectively.
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Robert Pitcairn Islands was a son of British Marine Major John Pitcairn Islands, who later was killed at the 1775 Battle of Bunker Hill in the American War of Independence.
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Pitcairn Islands named it after Francis Reynolds-Moreton, 3rd Baron Ducie, a captain in the Royal Navy.
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Pitcairn Islands reported that by March 1833, he had founded a Temperance Society to combat drunkenness, a "Maundy Thursday Society", a monthly prayer meeting, a juvenile society, a Peace Society and a school.
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Traditionally, Pitcairn Islanders consider that their islands "officially" became a British colony on 30 November 1838, at the same time becoming one of the first territories to extend voting rights to women.
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However, just eighteen months later, seventeen of the Pitcairn Islands Islanders returned to their home island, and another 27 followed five years later.
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In 1886, the Seventh-day Adventist layman John Tay visited Pitcairn Islands and persuaded most of the islanders to accept his faith.
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Pitcairn Islands returned in 1890 on the missionary schooner Pitcairn with an ordained minister to perform baptisms.
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Pitcairn Islands were formed by a centre of upwelling magma called the Pitcairn hotspot.
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Pitcairn Islands Island is a volcanic remnant primarily formed of tuff, where the north side of the cone has been eroded.
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Pitcairn Islands is accessible only by boat through Bounty Bay, due to the island's steep cliffs.
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Pitcairn Islands Island has no permanent water source; however, the island has three seasonal semi-permanent springs.
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Pitcairn Islands is located just south of the Tropic of Capricorn and experiences year-round warm weather, with wet summers and drier winters.
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Pitcairn Islands is part of the Tuamotu tropical moist forests terrestrial ecoregion.
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Birds breeding on Pitcairn Islands include the fairy tern, common noddy and red-tailed tropicbird.
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Four islands in the Pitcairn group have been identified by BirdLife International as separate Important Bird Areas.
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Pitcairn Islands Island is recognised because it is the only nesting site of the Pitcairn Islands reed warbler.
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Pitcairn Islands are a British overseas territory with a degree of local government.
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Pitcairn Islands have the smallest population of any democracy in the world.
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Pitcairn Islands are an overseas territory of the United Kingdom; defence is the responsibility of the Ministry of Defence and His Majesty's Armed Forces.
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Pitcairn Islands Island is remarkably productive and its benign climate supports a wide range of tropical and temperate crops.
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Pitcairn Islands has one of the best examples of disease-free bee populations anywhere in the world and the honey produced was and remains exceptionally high in quality.
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Pitcairn Islands bees are a placid variety and, within a short time, beekeepers are able to work with them wearing minimal protection.
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Only qualified high-voltage electrician on Pitcairn Islands, who manages the electricity grid, reached the age of 67 in 2020.
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Pitcairn Islands have suffered a substantial population decline since 1940, and the viability of the island's community is in doubt.
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Pitcairn Islands's population has significantly decreased since its peak of over 200 in the 1930s, to less than fifty permanent residents today.
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Pitcairn Islands Miscellany is a monthly newspaper available in print and online editions.
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Pitcairn Islands Island has one callsign allocated to its Club Station, VP6PAC.
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Pitcairn Islands can receive a number of television channels but only has capacity to broadcast two channels to houses at any one time.
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