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Adamstown, the sole village of Pitcairn Island

Pitcairn Island Pitcairn Island or just 'Pitcairn' is the sole inhabited island of the territory named the 'Pitcairn, Henderson, Ducie and Oeno Islands', or more usually the Pitcairn Islands. Its only village is Adamstown, the capital. Pitcairn is the second largest of the islands, measuring about 2 miles across, and its population of just 50 souls in four families, is the whole population of the territory. The island is accessible only by boat, at Bounty Bay. There is no harbour and no airstrip. The island is best known as home of the descendants of those who took part in the Mutiny on the Bounty and the Tahitian women who accompanied them. (Read more)