Pitcairn Island

noun

1. a small British island in the S Pacific, SE of Tuamotu Archipelago: settled 1790 by mutineers of the Bounty. 2 sq. mi. (5 sq. km).

Pitcairn Island

/ ˈpɪtkɛən; pɪtˈkɛən /

noun

1. an island in the S Pacific: forms with the islands of Ducie, Henderson and Oeno (all uninhabited) a UK Overseas Territory; Pitcairn itself was uninhabited until the landing in 1790 of the mutineers of H.M.S. Bounty and their Tahitian companions. Capital: Adamstown. Pop: 48 (2012 est). Area: 4.6 sq km (1.75 sq miles)

Example Sentences

The main sites of constitutional innovation, from 1755 through today, have been in peripheral places such as revolutionary Haiti or Pitcairn Island, which became the first place to enshrine equal political rights for women in the early 19th century.

From Washington Post

To return from this digression to the history of the colonization of Pitcairn Island.

From Project Gutenberg

With his first wish the Missionaries will certainly comply as a means of extending their dominion over Pitcairn Island also.

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Soon after this the increasing population of Pitcairn Island rendered it necessary that the islanders should find a wider home.

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By 25th March we found ourselves about the latitude of Pitcairn Island, from which we were barely one hundred miles distant.

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For all the world like the story of Pitcairn Island and the mutineers of the ‘Bounty’!

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