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

He has spent months at sea on ships in the Pacific and Arctic, and once stayed on Pitcairn Island with a direct descendant of Bounty mutineer Fletcher Christian.

From Washington Post

One of the U.K.’s tiniest and most remote outposts — Pitcairn Island, a volcanic outcropping in the middle of the Pacific Ocean — marked the new monarch’s accession with a ceremony Sunday.

From Washington Times

Bounty in 1789, also tolled a bell 96 times on Friday, one strike for each year of Elizabeth’s life, the Pitcairn Island Study Center in Angwin, Calif., reported.

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Pitcairn Island, one of King Charles III’s tiniest and most remote outposts, is marking the new monarch’s accession with a ceremony Sunday.

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Their fate wasn’t discovered until 1808, when the captain of an American merchant ship anchored just off Pitcairn Island heard a local oarsman speaking “crisp and proper English.”

From New York Times