Sir James Pitcairn (18 July 1776 – 12 January 1859) was a British physician, who became Director-General of the Medical Department for Ireland. He was...
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The Pitcairn Islands (/ˈpɪtkɛərn/ PIT-kairn; Pitkern: Pitkern Ailen), officially Pitcairn, Henderson, Ducie and Oeno Islands, are a group of four volcanic...
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James Pitcairn-Knowles (28 September 1863 - 2 January 1954) was a painter, graphic artist, and sculptor of Scottish descent who spent most of his life...
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The history of the Pitcairn Islands begins with the colonization of the islands by Polynesians in the 11th century. Polynesian people established a culture...
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the Romney Pringle rogue stories written in collaboration with John James Pitcairn (1860–1936), medical officer at Holloway Prison. Some were published...
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The COVID-19 pandemic in the Pitcairn Islands - a British territory - is part of the ongoing worldwide pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)...
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The Pitcairn Islands, a group of islands in the southern Pacific Ocean, are the last remaining British Overseas Territory in Oceania. Settled by mutineers...
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island in the south Pacific Ocean. It is part of the Pitcairn Island Group, together with Pitcairn, Oeno, and Ducie Islands. Measuring 9.6 by 5.1 kilometres...
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Mike Warren (mayor) (redirect from Mike Warren (Pitcairn Islands))
Calvert Warren (born 1964) is a Pitcairnese politician, who was Mayor of the Pitcairn Islands from 2008 to 2013. In December 2010, Warren was charged with possessing...
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postal history of the Pitcairn Islands began with letters being sent without postage stamps, as none were available on Pitcairn. In 1921, the United Kingdom...
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Pitcairn and John Pitcairn Jr. James Pitcairn (1776–1859), British physician and Director-General of the Medical Department for Ireland John Pitcairn...
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Oeno Island (redirect from Sandy Island (Pitcairn Islands))
Pacific Ocean, part of the Pitcairn Islands overseas territory. It is part of the Pitcairn Island Group, together with Pitcairn, Henderson and Ducie islands...
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Ducie Island (category Articles containing Pitcairn-Norfolk-language text)
uninhabited atoll in the Pitcairn Islands group, which also includes Pitcairn, Henderson and Oeno islands. Ducie lies east of Pitcairn Island, and east of...
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John Pitcairn Jr. (January 10, 1841 – July 22, 1916) was a Scottish-born American industrialist. With just an elementary school education, Pitcairn rose...
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Claud Cockburn (redirect from Frank Pitcairn)
year-long absence because of an industrial dispute. Under the alias Frank Pitcairn, Cockburn contributed to the British communist newspaper, the Daily Worker...
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Brenda Christian (category Pitcairn Islands people of Saint Kitts and Nevis descent)
territory of the Pitcairn Islands. When her brother Steve Christian was removed from the office of mayor following the 2004 Pitcairn child sexual abuse...
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Pitcairn was a schooner built in 1890 for the Seventh-day Adventist Church for use in missionary work in the South Pacific. After six missionary voyages...
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Mutiny on the Bounty (category 1789 in the Pitcairn Islands)
mutineers to justice. The mutineers variously settled on Tahiti or on Pitcairn Island. Bounty had left England in 1787 on a mission to collect and transport...
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(1688-1691); James Pitcairn (c.1691); James Inglis (1692-1699); John Cleghorn (1701-1711); Henry Robin (1714-1718 left due to adultery); James Thomson (1719-1740...
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Fletcher Christian (category Pitcairn Islands people of Manx descent)
Tahitian women settled on isolated Pitcairn Island, where they stripped and burned the vessel. Christian died on Pitcairn, possibly killed in a conflict with...
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Retrieved October 14, 2013. Pitcairn (1833a), pp. 49-, 53, 56, 57. Pitcairn (1833a), p. 58. Pitcairn (1833b), pp. 162–165. Pitcairn (1833b), p. 163n. Henderson...
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England for trial, while Christian and eight others evaded discovery on Pitcairn Island. The Admiralty rated Bounty as a cutter, the smallest category of...
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Mauatua (category Pitcairn Islands people of Polynesian descent)
(c. 1764 – 19 September 1841) was a Tahitian tapa maker, who settled on Pitcairn Island with the Bounty mutineers. She married both Fletcher Christian and...
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0662944°S 130.1004806°W / -25.0662944; -130.1004806 Pitcairn Island Museum is a museum in Pitcairn Island, a British Overseas Territory in the southern...
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James Russell McCoy (4 September 1845 – 14 February 1924) served as Magistrate of the British Overseas Territory of Pitcairn Island 7 times, between 1870...
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John Adams (mutineer) (category English emigrants to the Pitcairn Islands)
March 1829), was the last survivor of the Bounty mutineers who settled on Pitcairn Island in January 1790, the year after the mutiny. His real name was John...
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until 1948. Harold Frederick Pitcairn, the youngest son of PPG Industries founder John Pitcairn, Jr., founded Pitcairn Aircraft Company. The business...
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Thomas Pitcairn (1800 – 1854) was a Presbyterian minister at Cockpen in the parish of Dalkeith. He is remembered for his being elected Clerk of the Free...
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HMS Bounty (category History of the Pitcairn Islands)
the Bounty. The mutineers later burned Bounty while she was moored at Pitcairn Island in the Southern Pacific Ocean in 1790. An American adventurer helped...
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The Women of Pitcairn Island is a 1956 American adventure drama film directed by Jean Yarbrough and starring Lynn Bari, John Smith and Sue England. It...
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