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Pitcairn Islands

Adamstown

Adamstown is the capital and only settlement of the , the only British Overseas Territory that is located in the southern Pacific Ocean.
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  • Type: Hamlet with 50 residents
  • Description: capital and only settlement on the Pitcairn Islands
  • Also known as: “Adams Town” and “Adamstown, Pitcairn Islands”

Places of Interest

Highlights include HMS Bounty and Pulau School.

Disaster remains
Photo: JoJan, CC BY 3.0.
, 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.

School
Photo: Henning Axt, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The is the only school on the . It is located in the capital of Adamstown and follows a modified version of the New Zealand educational curriculum, but with some changes made to promote local culture and traditions.

Peak
, is the highest point of the , a British overseas territory in the southern Pacific Ocean, with an elevation of 347 metres.

Adamstown

Latitude
-25.06667° or 25° 4′ south
Longitude
-130.10021° or 130° 6′ 1″ west
Population
50
Elevation
67 metres (220 feet)
Open location code
546FWVMX+8W
Open­Street­Map ID
node 2134592841
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­hamlet
Geo­Names ID
4030723
Wiki­data ID
Q48273
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Adamstown” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Adamstown”
  • Arabic: “آدمزتاون”
  • Arabic: “ادمز تاون”
  • Armenian: “Ադամսթաուն”
  • Asturian: “Adamstown”
  • Azerbaijani: “Adamstaun”
  • Basque: “Adamstown”
  • Belarusian: “Адамзтаўн”
  • Belarusian: “Адамстаўн”
  • Bosnian: “Adamstown”
  • Breton: “Adamstown”
  • Bulgarian: “Адамстаун”
  • Catalan: “Adamstown”
  • Chinese: “Adamstown”
  • Chinese: “亚当斯敦 / 亞當斯敦”
  • Chinese: “亚当斯敦”
  • Chinese: “亞當斯敦”
  • Croatian: “Adamstown”
  • Czech: “Adamstown”
  • Danish: “Adamstown”
  • Dutch: “Adamstown”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ادامستون”
  • Esperanto: “Adamstaŭno”
  • Esperanto: “Adamstown”
  • Estonian: “Adamstown”
  • Finnish: “Adamstown”
  • French: “Adamstown”
  • Galician: “Adamstown, Illas Pitcairn”
  • Galician: “Adamstown”
  • Georgian: “ადამსტაუნი”
  • German: “Adamstown”
  • Greek: “Adamstown”
  • Greek: “Άνταμσταουν”
  • Hausa: “Yanayin Adamstown, Tsibirin Pitcairn”
  • Hebrew: “אדמסטאון”
  • Hungarian: “Adamstown”
  • Icelandic: “Adamstown”
  • Ido: “Adamstown”
  • Indonesian: “Adamstown”
  • Irish: “Adamstown”
  • Italian: “Adamstown”
  • Japanese: “アダムスタウン”
  • Kazakh: “Адамстаун”
  • Korean: “아담스타운”
  • Korean: “애덤스타운”
  • Latvian: “Adamstauna”
  • Lithuanian: “Adamstaunas”
  • Luxembourgish: “Adamstown”
  • Macedonian: “Адамстаун”
  • Marathi: “ॲडम्सटाउन”
  • Marathi: “अॅडम्सटाउन”
  • Marathi: “ऍडम्सटाउन”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Adamstown”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Adamstown”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Adamstown”
  • Norwegian: “Adamstown”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Adamstown”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Adamustūn, Pitcearnīega”
  • Persian: “آدامستاون، جزایر پیت‌کرن”
  • Persian: “ادمزتون، پیتکرن ایسلند”
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Adamstoen”
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Adamstown”
  • Polish: “Adamstown”
  • Portuguese: “Adamstown”
  • Pushto: “آدامستون پیتکرن ټاپوګان”
  • Romanian: “Adamstown”
  • Russian: “Адамстаун”
  • Santali: “ᱮᱰᱟᱢᱥᱴᱟᱣᱩᱱ, ᱯᱤᱴᱠᱟᱭᱨᱱ ᱰᱷᱤᱯ ᱠᱚ”
  • Scots: “Adamstown, Pitcairn Islands”
  • Scots: “Adamstown”
  • Serbian: “Адамстаун”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Adamstown”
  • Sinhala: “ඇඩම්ස්ටවුන්, පිට්කේන් දූපත්”
  • Slovak: “Adamstown”
  • Spanish: “Adamstown Islas Pitcairn”
  • Spanish: “Adamstown”
  • Swedish: “Adamstown, Pitcairnöarna”
  • Swedish: “Adamstown”
  • Tajik: “Адамстаун”
  • Tamil: “ஆடம்சுடவுன்”
  • Tamil: “ஆடம்ஸ்டவுன்”
  • Thai: “แอดัมส์ทาวน์”
  • Tumbuka: “Adamstown, Pitcairn Islands”
  • Turkish: “Adamstown”
  • Ukrainian: “Адамстаун”
  • Urdu: “ایڈمز ٹاؤن، جزائر پٹکیرن”
  • Urdu: “ایڈمز ٹاؤن”
  • Uzbek: “Adamstaun”
  • Vietnamese: “Adamstown, đảo Pitcairn”
  • Vietnamese: “Adamstown, Quần đảo Pitcairn”
  • Vietnamese: “Adamstown”
  • Võro: “Adamstown”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Adamstown, Pitcairn Island”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Adamstown, Pitcairn Islands”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Adamstown”
  • Western Frisian: “Adamstown”
  • Wu Chinese: “亚当斯敦 (皮特凯恩群岛)”
  • Wu Chinese: “亚当斯敦（皮特凯恩群岛）”
  • Yue Chinese: “亞當斯敦”
  • “Adamstown”

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