| 2017 | 13 Sep |
250 years ago on July 2nd 1767, a young boy high in the crow’s nest of the HMS Swallow, shouted "Land Ahoy" and Pitcairn's Island was first sighted by a European . . . |
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26 Jul |
Since early 2011 the Pew Environment Group's Global Ocean Legacy project has been working with the Pitcairn islanders on the idea of establishing a large scale marine reserve within their waters . . . |
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17 May |
In 1766 Captain Philip Carteret was given the command of the HMS Swallow to circumnavigate the world as consort to the HMS Dolphin . . . |
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30 Mar |
In September 1789 after the mutiny and while staying briefly on Tahiti, Fletcher Christian became concerned that some of his men were ready to rebel against him . . . |
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22 Feb |
Rosalind Amelia Young was born on August 13th, 1853, the daughter of Simon Young and Mary Buffett Christian . . . |
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| 2016 | 07 Dec |
The Pitcairn language, also known as Pitkern and Pitcairnese, is a creole language based on an 18th century dialect of English and Tahitian. It is a primary language of Pitcairn and Norfolk Islands . . . |
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19 Oct |
Pitcairn Island has a fern flora of around 30 species, all of which are similar to or only doubtfully distinct from those of the Society and Austral Islands. It is presumed that these species which have succeeded in colonising the most south-easterly extension of Polynesia are among the most successful in dispersal of the Malayan-Polynesian ferns . . . |
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24 Aug |
Following the arrival of the Bounty mutineers in 1790 a turbulent ten years followed where conflict between the mutineers and the Tahitian men and indeed the mutineers themselves saw the population reduce from the original 28 down to just one mutineer, John Adams, and the Tahitian women . . . |
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06 Jul |
The Phoenix petrel Pterodroma alba is considered to be a relatively rare and little known seabird of the tropical Pacific. It is a medium-sized tropical seabird, measuring up to 35 cm long, with a wingspan of around 83 cm . . . |
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19 Apr |
HM Queen Elizabeth II is Head of State of the United Kingdom and fifteen other Commonwealth realms. The elder daughter of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth, she was born in 1926 and became Queen at the age of twenty-five . . . |
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09 Mar |
William Shakespeare was born on or near April 23 1564, in Stratford-upon-Avon, England. The third child of John Shakespeare, a leather merchant, and Mary Arden, a local landed heiress, he had two older sisters and three younger brothers . . . |
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13 Jan |
The Pitcairn Islands form the south-easternmost extension of the geological archipelago of the Tuamotus of French Polynesia and consist of four islands: Pitcairn Island, Oeno Island, Henderson Island and Ducie Island . . . |
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| 2015 | 09 Dec |
Christmas on Pitcairn is a community affair and always enjoyed by all . . . |
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15 Oct |
October 15 2015 is exactly 75 years since the Pitcairn Islands released its first issue of postage stamps . . . |
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