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Pitcairn Island

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Area
47 km²
Coordinates
-25.0667, -130.1000
Category
islands

Overview

Refuge of the HMS Bounty mutineers - one of the least populous jurisdictions on Earth.

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Pitcairn Island is the only inhabited island of the Pitcairn Islands, in the southern Pacific Ocean, of which many of the 40 inhabitants are descendants of mutineers of HMS Bounty.

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