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- proper noun
British territory in the southPacific Ocean
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Examples
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He cares so much about national songs that, to get up to speed on the latest permutation in the Pitcairn Islands anthem, he exchanged emails with many of the Pacific archipelago's 50 or so inhabitants.
Oh, Say, Can You See New Lyrics for This Anthem? Matt Moffett 2011
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Two years later, the mutiny would occur, and, according to one tradition, the death of Fletcher on the Pitcairn Islands.
Cap'n Blimey 2008
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A great diversity of seabirds breed here, including 22 species in the Tuamotus and 14 species in the Gambier and Pitcairn Islands.
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Spread over 3,000 km2 of the Pacific Ocean, this ecoregion encompasses the 76 atolls and islands of Tuamotu, which stretch 1,800 kilometers (km) to the Gambier Islands and the Pitcairn Islands 1,000 km to the east.
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Both Henderson and Pitcairn Islands have an approximate 14 percent rate of endemism for vascular plants.
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The climate varies from tropical in the northern Tuamotus with a mean annual temperature of 27 °C and 80 percent humidity to subtropical in the Pitcairn Islands with a mean annual temperature of 23 °C.
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The birds of the Pitcairn Islands, central south Pacific Ocean.
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Ducie and Oeno Atolls in the Pitcairn Islands, and all of the Tuamotus, with the exception of Makatea Island, are coral atolls less than 6 meters (m) in elevation, some of which surround enormous lagoons.
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Systematic review of the land snails of the Pitcairn Islands.
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The Pitcairn Islands: paradise past, paradise present?
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