Pitcairn Islands
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.- Type: Island
- Description: only inhabited island in the Pitcairn Islands
- Also known as: “Occas Island”, “Pitcairn Island”, “Pitcairn’s Island”, “皮特凯恩”, and “皮特凯恩群岛”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Pawala Valley Ridge and HMS Bounty.
Pawala Valley Ridge
Peak
Pawala Valley Ridge, is the highest point of the Pitcairn Islands, a British overseas territory in the southern Pacific Ocean, with an elevation of 347 metres.
HMS Bounty
Disaster remains
HMS Bounty, also known as HMAV Bounty, was a British merchant ship that the Royal Navy purchased in 1787 for a botanical mission. The ship was sent to the South Pacific Ocean under the command of William Bligh to acquire breadfruit plants and transport them to the British West Indies.
Pitcairn Radio Station
Tower
Pitcairn Radio Station was a radio station located at Taro Ground near the southern coast of Pitcairn Island in the south Pacific. It was located on the highest point of the island at 272 metres above sea level.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Adamstown.
Adamstown
Hamlet
Photo: Makemake, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Adamstown is the capital and only settlement of the Pitcairn Islands, the only British Overseas Territory that is located in the southern Pacific Ocean.
Pitcairn Islands
- Category: landform
- Location: Pitcairn Islands, Polynesia, Oceania
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In Other Languages
From Achinese to Welsh—“Pitcairn Islands” goes by many names.
- Achinese: “D”
- Arabic: “جزر بيتكيرن”
- Arpitan: “Iles Pitcairn”
- Basque: “Pitcairn uhartea”
- Belarusian: “Востраў Піткэрн”
- Belarusian: “Піткэрн”
- Bosnian: “Pitcairn”
- Breton: “Enez Pitcairn”
- Catalan: “illa Pitcairn”
- Catalan: “Illa Pitcairn”
- Catalan: “Illes Pitcairn”
- Cebuano: “Pitcairn Island”
- Cebuano: “Pitcairn”
- Chinese: “皮特肯島”
- Cornish: “Ynysow Pitcairn”
- Croatian: “Pitcairn”
- Czech: “Pitcairn”
- Czech: “Pitcairnovy ostrovy”
- Czech: “Pitcairnův ostrov”
- Danish: “Pitcairn Island”
- Danish: “Pitcairn”
- Dutch: “Pitcairn Island”
- Dutch: “Pitcairn-eiland”
- Dutch: “Pitcairn”
- Dutch: “Pitcairneilanden”
- Esperanto: “Pitcairn”
- Esperanto: “Pitkarna insulo”
- Esperanto: “Pitkarna Insulo”
- Esperanto: “Pitkarno”
- Esperanto: “Pitkerno”
- Finnish: “Pitcairn”
- French: “île de Pitcairn”
- French: “ile Pitcairn”
- French: “île Pitcairn”
- French: “Îles Pitcairn”
- French: “Pitcairn”
- Galician: “Illa de Pitcairn”
- German: “Pitcairn Island”
- German: “Pitcairn-Insel”
- German: “Pitcairn”
- German: “Pitcairninsel”
- German: “Pitcairninseln”
- Greek: “Νήσοι Πίτκαιρν”
- Greek: “Πίτκαιρν”
- Hebrew: “פיטקרן”
- Hungarian: “Pitcairn-szigetek”
- Ido: “Pitkern”
- Indonesian: “Kepulauan Pitcairn”
- Interlingua: “Pitcairn”
- Interlingua: “Pitkern Ailen”
- Italian: “Isola di Pitcairn”
- Italian: “Isole Pitcairn”
- Italian: “Pitcairn”
- Japanese: “ピトケアン島”
- Japanese: “ピトケアン諸島”
- Kazakh: “Питкэрн аралы”
- Korean: “핏케언 제도”
- Ladin: “Ijula de Pitcairn”
- Ladin: “Pitcairn”
- Lithuanian: “Pitkerno salos”
- Luxembourgish: “Pitcairn”
- Norwegian: “Pitcairnøyene”
- Papiamento: “Pitcairn”
- Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Pitkern Ailen”
- Polish: “Pitcairn”
- Polish: “Wyspa Pitcairn”
- Portuguese: “Pitcairn”
- Romanian: “Insulele Pitcairn”
- Russian: “Острова Питкэрн”
- Russian: “Питкэрн”
- Serbian: “Острва Питкерн”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Pitkern”
- Sicilian: “Isuli Pitcairn”
- Sicilian: “Ìsuli Pitcairn”
- Slovak: “Pitcairn”
- Slovak: “Pitcairnove ostrovy”
- Slovenian: “Pitcairn”
- Slovenian: “Pitcairnski otoki”
- Spanish: “Isla Pitcairn”
- Spanish: “Islas Pitcairn”
- Swedish: “Pitcairn”
- Swedish: “Pitcairnöarna”
- Swiss German: “Pitcairn”
- Tajik: “Ҷазираи Питкэрн”
- Thai: “หมู่เกาะพิตแคร์น”
- Tosk Albanian: “Pitcairn”
- Turkish: “Pitcairn Adası”
- Ukrainian: “Піткернські острови”
- Welsh: “Ynysoedd Pitcairn”
- “Pitcairn”
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