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2 unusual facts about Pitcairn Islands


Mary Morrill

Mayhew Folger, captain of the sealing ship, Topaz, that rediscovered the Pitcairn Islands in 1808

Niue dollar

They are also of the same exact size and composition as the Pitcairn Islands special coin set.


Richard Fell

Richard Taylor Fell CVO (born 11 November 1948) was the British High Commissioner to New Zealand and the colonial Governor of the Pitcairn, Henderson, Ducie and Oeno Islands (of which only Pitcairn is inhabited) from 2001 to 2006.

Zebrasoma rostratum

Zebrasoma rostratum is found in the South Pacific off the coasts of the Society Islands, Marquesas Islands, Line Islands, Tuamoto Islands to the Pitcairn Islands.


see also

Ben Young

Benjamin Stanley Young (1851-1934), Magistrate of the British Overseas Territory of the Pitcairn Islands

Henderson Archaic Pigeon

The genus was named for both the ship HMS Bounty with which, following the famous mutiny, Europeans first discovered the Pitcairn Islands, and for the former bounty the bird provided as food; with the Greek phaps (wild pigeon).

MV Claymore 2

In August 2009 she was purchased by Nigle Jolly, of Stoney Creek Shipping Co. Ltd and is contracted out by the Pitcairn Islands Government for 4 scheduled trips out of New Zealand to deliver cargo supplies to Pitcairn Island and also carries passengers to and from Pitcairn Island out of Mangareva totaling 8 scheduled trips to and from the Island each year.

Pitcairn sexual assault trial of 2004

Jay Warren (born July 1956) former magistrate of the Pitcairn Islands from 1990 to 1999, when his office was replaced by that of the mayor following a constitutional revision.