Pitcairn Islands: Pitcairn, Henderson, Ducie and Oeno Islands

Pitcairn Islands, British Overseas Territory

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The Pitcairn Islands (/ˈpɪtkɛərn/ PIT-kairn; Pitkern: Pitkern Ailen),

officially Pitcairn, Henderson, Ducie and Oeno Islands

Pitcairn Island

 

Political Map of Pitcairn Islands

Pitcairn Islands

Pitcairn Island

 

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Henderson Island

In 1902 Henderson was added to the Pitcairn Islands colony. The Pitcairn Islands are a South Pacific British Overseas Territory. United Nations made it a World Heritage Site in 1988.

North Beach. Henderson Island

North Beach. Henderson Island

Northwest Beach. Henderson Island

 

Ducie island as photographed by NASA in 2001.

Islets of Ducie Atoll

Islets of Ducie

A beach on Acadia Island, Ducie Atoll, Pitcairn Islands.

Ducie Island

A view of Acadia Island across the lagoon, Ducie Atoll, Pitcairn Islands. 

 

Oeno Atoll

Oeno Island, also known as Holiday Island, is an uninhabited coral atoll in the South Pacific Ocean, part of the Pitcairn Islands overseas territory, located about 76 miles northwest of Pitcairn. 

Oeno Island and Sandy Island

 

 

Pitcairn Islands, British Overseas Territory

Pitcairn Island

Ducie Island(Duce Atoll)

Bounty Bay

Christian's Cave

Sandy Island

Saint Paul's Pool

Pitcairn Islands Museum

Oeno Island

Pitcairn Islands are a group of 4 volcanic islands and the only British Overseas Territory located in the Southern Pacific Ocean.

It is geographically positioned in the Southern hemisphere of the Earth. Situated roughly halfway between New Zealand and Peru and to the southeast of Tahiti.

 

 Pitcairn Islands comprises of a group of 4 small volcanic islands including Pitcairn proper, Henderson, Ducie and Oeno Islands encompassing several hundred miles in the Pacific Ocean. Out of these 4-island groups, Pitcairn is the 2nd largest and the archipelago’s only inhabited island.

 

Located on the central-north coast of Pitcairn Island close to the Bounty Bay is Adamstown – the capital of all 4 Pitcairn Islands and the only settlement on the island territory.

 

Pitcairn remains Britain's sole remaining colonial possession in the Pacific.

The Pitcairn Islands (/ˈpɪtkɛərn/ PIT-kairn; Pitkern: Pitkern Ailen), officially Pitcairn, Henderson, Ducie and Oeno Islands,  are a group of four volcanic islands in the southern Pacific Ocean that form the sole British Overseas Territory in the Pacific Ocean. The four islands—Pitcairn, Henderson, Ducie and Oeno—are scattered across several hundred kilometres of ocean and have a combined land area of about 47 square kilometres (18 square miles).

 

Henderson Island accounts for 86% of the land area, but only Pitcairn Island is inhabited. The inhabited islands nearest to the Pitcairn Islands are Mangareva (of French Polynesia), 688 km to the west, as well as Easter Island, 1,929 km to the east.

 

The Pitcairn Islanders are descended mostly from nine British HMS Bounty mutineers and twelve Tahitian women. In 2023, the territory had 35 permanent inhabitants.