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ˈpɪt kɛərnpit·cairn is·land

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  1. Pitcairn Islandnoun

    The main island of Pitcairn

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  1. Pitcairn Island

    Pitcairn Island is the only inhabited island of the Pitcairn Islands, of which many inhabitants are descendants of mutineers of HMS Bounty.

The Nuttall Encyclopedia

  1. Pitcairn Island

    a small volcanic island 2½ m. long and 1 broad, solitary, in the Pacific, 5000 m. E. of Brisbane, where, in 1790, nine men of H.M.S. Bounty who had mutinied landed with six Tahitians and a dozen Tahitian women; from these have sprung an interesting community of islanders, virtuous, upright, and contented, of Christian faith, who, having sent a colony to Norfolk Island, numbered in 1890 still 128.

U.S. National Library of Medicine

  1. Pitcairn Island

    An island in Polynesia, in the south Pacific Ocean. It was discovered in 1767 by Philip Carteret, uninhabited until 1790 when settled by mutineers from the English ship, Bounty. The settlement was discovered in 1808; the population was removed temporarily to Tahiti in 1831 and to Norfolk Island (between New Caledonia and New Zealand) in 1856. Some later returned to Pitcairn and their descendents constitute the present population of this British colony. The island is named for the midshipman who first sighted it from the ship. (From Webster's New Geographical Dictionary, 1988, p958 & Room, Brewer's Dictionary of Names, 1992, p422)

Etymology and Origins

  1. Pitcairn Island

    Discovered by Captain Cartaret in 1767, and named by him after one of his officers.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of pitcairn island in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of pitcairn island in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

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