Mike Dubost
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Joined: 8/24/2008 From: Sacramento, CA Status: offline
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ORIGINAL: warspite1 I don`t know what Nordoff and Hall is/are but I have always understood Pitcairn Islands to be the correct term. Pitcairn is just one of the island group so when talking about the only inhabited island you refer to Pitcairn Island, but the island group is Pitcairn Islands. I think this is right as it is. They wrote the trilogy, Mutiny on the Bounty, Men Against the Sea, and Pitcairn's Island. I always thought there was just the one island and I thought it was named Pitcairn's Island. But according to Wikipedia: The Pitcairn Islands are officially named the Pitcairn, Henderson, Ducie and Oeno Islands, and are a group of four volcanic islands in the southern Pacific Ocean. The islands are a British overseas territory (formerly a British colony), the last remaining in the Pacific. The names of the islands are Pitcairn, Henderson, Ducie, and Oeno; only Pitcairn, the second largest, is inhabited. I stand corrected on the WiF name. (insert mental picture of tipping a hat). I thought there was only 1 island. I did not realize it was a group. You learn something new all the time.
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