July Oeno has been designated as an Important Bird Area by Birdlife International, as it is home to a number of seabirds such as Murphy's Petrels (with one of the largest colonies of this bird in the world), Sooty Terns and Brown Noddies.
This page shows the sunrise and sunset times in Sandy Island, Pitcairn Islands, including beautiful sunrise or sunset photos, local current time, timezone, longitude, latitude and live map. It is located in the southwest part of the atoll's lagoon. The Pitcairn Islands (Pitkern: Pitkern Ailen), officially Pitcairn, Henderson, Ducie and Oeno Islands, are a group of four volcanic islands in the southern Pacific Ocean that form the sole British Overseas Territory in the Pacific Ocean.The four islands—Pitcairn proper, Henderson, Ducie and Oeno—are scattered across several hundred miles of ocean and have a combined land area of about 18 mi2.Henderson Island (formerly also San Juan Bautista and Elizabeth Island) is an uninhabited member of the Pitcairn Islands archipelago in the south Pacific Ocean.The four islands—Pitcairn proper, Henderson, Ducie and Oeno—are scattered across several hundred miles of ocean and have a combined land area of about 18 mi2.Ducie Island is an uninhabited atoll in the Pitcairn Islands.The Pitcairn Islanders are a biracial ethnic group descended mostly from nine Bounty mutineers and the handful of Tahitians who accompanied them, an event that has been retold in many books and films.Pitcairn Islanders also referred to as Pitkerners & Pitcairnese, are the inhabitants or citizens of the Pitcairn Islands.The nearest places are Mangareva (of French Polynesia) to the west and Easter Island to the east.The nearest inhabited land (around 50 residents in 2013) is Pitcairn Island, 2075 km away; the nearest town with a population over 500 is Rikitea, on the island of Mangareva, 2606 km away; the nearest continental point lies in central Chile, 3512 km away.The Pitcairn Islanders are a biracial ethnic group descended mostly from nine Bounty mutineers and the handful of Tahitians who accompanied them, an event that has been retold in many books and films.The mutineers variously settled on Tahiti or on Pitcairn Island.The four islands—Pitcairn proper, Henderson, Ducie and Oeno—are scattered across several hundred miles of ocean and have a combined land area of about 18 mi2.Oeno Island or Holiday Island is a coral atoll in the South Pacific Ocean, part of the Pitcairn Islands overseas territory.The island was named after midshipman Robert Pitcairn, a fifteen-year-old crew member who was the first to sight the island.Pitcairn Island was named after him: he was the first person to spot the island on 2 July 1767 (ship's time), while serving in a voyage in the South Pacific on HMS Swallow, captained by Philip Carteret.The Pitcairn Islands (Pitkern: Pitkern Ailen), officially Pitcairn, Henderson, Ducie and Oeno Islands, are a group of four volcanic islands in the southern Pacific Ocean that form the sole British Overseas Territory in the Pacific Ocean.Later, in the quest for Terra Australis ("the [great] Southern Land"), Spanish explorations in the 17th century, such as the expedition led by the Portuguese navigator Pedro Fernandes de Queirós, discovered the Pitcairn and Vanuatu archipelagos, and sailed the Torres Strait between Australia and New Guinea, named after navigator Luís Vaz de Torres.John Adams and Ned Young turned to the scriptures, using the ship's Bible as their guide for a new and peaceful society.John Adams, known as Jack Adams (4 July 1767 – 5 March 1829), was the last survivor of the mutineers who settled on Pitcairn Island in January 1790, the year after the mutiny.The Pitcairn Islands (Pitkern: Pitkern Ailen), officially Pitcairn, Henderson, Ducie and Oeno Islands, are a group of four volcanic islands in the southern Pacific Ocean that form the sole British Overseas Territory in the Pacific Ocean.It is a primary language of the Pitcairn Islands, though it has more speakers on Norfolk Island.The earliest known settlers of the Pitcairn Islands were Polynesians who appear to have lived on Pitcairn and Henderson, and on Mangareva Island 540 km to the northwest, for several centuries.There are an estimated 2 million ethnic Polynesians (full and part) worldwide, the vast majority of whom inhabit independent Polynesian nation states (Samoa, Niue, Cook Islands, Tonga and Tuvalu) and form minorities in Australia, Chile (Easter Island), New Zealand, France (French Polynesia and Wallis and Futuna), United Kingdom Overseas Territories (Pitcairn Islands) and the United States (Hawaii and American Samoa).Finally, the American sealing ship Topaz, under Mayhew Folger, became the first to visit the island, when the crew spent 10 hours on Pitcairn in February 1808.Mayhew Folger (March 9, 1774 – September 1, 1828) was an American whaler who captained the sealing ship Topaz that rediscovered the Pitcairn Islands in 1808, while one of 's mutineers was still living.By the mid-1850s, the Pitcairn community was outgrowing the island; its leaders appealed to the British government for assistance, and were offered Norfolk Island.On 8 June 1856, permanent civilian residence on the island began when it was settled from Pitcairn Island.John Adams and Ned Young turned to the scriptures, using the ship's Bible as their guide for a new and peaceful society.1762 – 25 December 1800), was a British sailor, mutineer from the famous HMS Bounty incident, and co-founder of the mutineers' Pitcairn Island settlement.Pitcairn Island was sighted on 3 July 1767 by the crew of the British sloop HMS Swallow, commanded by Captain Philip Carteret.The two ships were parted shortly after sailing through the Strait of Magellan, Carteret discovering Pitcairn Island and the Carteret Islands, which were subsequently named after him.In 2004, the islanders had about 20 firearms among them, which they surrendered ahead of the sexual assault trials.The Pitcairn sexual assault trial of 2004 concerned seven men living on Pitcairn Island who faced 55 charges relating to sexual offences against children and young people.On 25 October 2004, six men were convicted, including Steve Christian, the island's mayor at the time.Steven Raymond Christian (born 26 June 1951, Pitcairn Island) is a political figure and convicted child rapist from the Pitcairn Islands.John Adams and Ned Young turned to the scriptures, using the ship's Bible as their guide for a new and peaceful society.In January 1790, nine of the mutineers from the ship and their Tahitian companions (six men, eleven women and a baby) settled on Pitcairn Island, having anchored HMS Bounty in a small bay on the northern side of the island and set her on fire after everything of utility was landed.The wreck is still visible underwater in Bounty Bay, discovered in 1957 by National Geographic explorer Luis Marden.Bounty Bay is an embayment of the Pacific Ocean into Pitcairn Island.In 1886, the Seventh-day Adventist layman John Tay visited Pitcairn and persuaded most of the islanders to accept his faith.It was through his efforts that most of the inhabitants of Pitcairn Island were converted to Adventism, and that the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists purchased the Pitcairn schooner for missionary work in the South Pacific.In 2010, Pitcairn mayor Mike Warren faced 25 charges of possessing images and videos of child pornography on his computer.Michael Calvert Warren (born 1964) is a Pitcairnese politician, who was Mayor of the Pitcairn Islands from 2008 to 2013.In 1832 a Church Missionary Society missionary, Joshua Hill, arrived.In 1832 he arrived on Pitcairn Island which was first inhabited in the 1790s by British mutineers from and some Tahitians who joined them.The Pitcairn Islands were formed by a centre of upwelling magma called the Pitcairn hotspot.It is responsible for creating the Pitcairn Islands and two large seamounts named Adams and Bounty, as well as atolls at Moruroa, Fangataufa and the Gambier Islands.The nearest places are Mangareva (of French Polynesia) to the west and Easter Island to the east.
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