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ID: 1008617
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1008617
Record Type:
physical
Pitcairn Island (island)
Coordinates:
Lat: 25 04 00 S
degrees minutes
Lat: -25.0667
decimal degrees
Long: 130 05 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -130.0830
decimal degrees
Note:
Volcanic island in South Pacific Ocean, administered by Britain as Pitcairn colony; famous for having been settled by Fletcher Christian and other mutineers from the British ship Bounty in 1790.
Names:
Pitcairn Island
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
............
named for Midshipman Robert Pitcairn, who was first on his ship to sight the island in 1767
Pitcairn's Island
(
C
,
V
)
Pitcairn
(
C
,
V
)
Occas Island
(
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Oceania
(continent) (
P
)
........
Pitcairn Islands
(dependent state) (
P
)
............
Pitcairn Island
(island) (
P
)
Place Types:
island (
preferred
,
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Occas Island..........
[
VP
]
.......................
NGA, GEOnet Names Server (2004-2008)
accessed 19 February 2007
Pitcairn..........
[
VP
]
.................
NGA, GEOnet Names Server (2004-2008)
accessed 19 February 2007
Pitcairn Island..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.............................
Britannica Book of the Year (1992)
493
.............................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
II, 739
.............................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
IX, 474
.............................
NGA, GEOnet Names Server (2004-2008)
accessed 19 February 2007
.............................
Times Atlas of the World (1992)
154
.............................
Times Concise Atlas of the World (1995)
I-76
.............................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
958
Pitcairn's Island..........
[
VP
]
................................
NGA, GEOnet Names Server (2004-2008)
accessed 19 February 2007
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
II, 739
..................
NGA, GEOnet Names Server (2004-2008)
accessed 19 February 2007
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1992)
154
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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