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Pitcairn Island
The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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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.
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Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Pitcairn Island'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/nut/p/pitcairn-island.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Pitcairn Island'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/nut/p/pitcairn-island.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
