{"id":9397,"date":"2022-04-17T04:00:40","date_gmt":"2022-04-17T11:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.smoketreemanor.com\/?p=9397"},"modified":"2022-04-17T10:34:30","modified_gmt":"2022-04-17T17:34:30","slug":"pitcairn-islands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.smoketreemanor.com\/pitcairn-islands\/","title":{"rendered":"Pitcairn Islands"},"content":{"rendered":"
The Pitcairn Islands, officially the\u00a0Pitcairn, Henderson, Ducie and Oeno Islands,\u00a0also known as\u00a0British Polynesia, is a group of four volcanic islands in the southern\u00a0Pacific Ocean<\/a>\u00a0that form the sole\u00a0British Overseas Territory<\/a>\u00a0in the Pacific Ocean. The four islands\u2014Pitcairn,\u00a0Henderson<\/a>,\u00a0Ducie<\/a>, and\u00a0Oeno<\/a>\u2014are scattered across several hundred kilometers of ocean and have a combined land area of about 18 square miles (47 km2<\/sup>). Henderson Island accounts for 86% of the land area, but only Pitcairn Island is inhabited. The islands nearest to the Pitcairn Islands are\u00a0Mangareva<\/a>\u00a0(of\u00a0French Polynesia<\/a>) to the west and\u00a0Easter Island<\/a>\u00a0to the east.<\/p>\n