The Pitcairn Islands are located in Oceania, they are islands in the South Pacific Ocean and are about midway between Peru and New Zealand.  There is a total of 47 square kilometers of land on the Pitcairn Islands.  This makes the Pitcairn Islands about 0.3 times the size of Washington D.C.!  There is 51 miles of coastline on the islands.

 

The climate of the Pitcairn Islands is tropical, hot, and usually humid.  It is modified by southeast trade winds.  There is a rainy from November to March.  The terrain is a rugged volcanic formation.  The coastline is rocky with cliffs.  The lowest point of the Pitcairn Islands is at the Pacific Ocean at zero meters.  The highest point is Pawala Valley Ridge at 347 meters!

 

The resources of the Pitcairn Islands are miro trees (used for handicrafts) and fish.  There is maganese, iron, copper, gold, silver, and zinc offshore of the Pitcairn Islands.  Natural hazards of the islands are typhoons, which come usually in November through-out March.  A major environmental issue is deforestation. Only a small forest of the original forest remains because of burning and clearing for settlement.  On a geography note, the Pitcairn Islands are Britain's most isolated dependency, and only the larger island of Pitcairn is inhavited.  But it has no port of natural harbor, so supplies must be transported by rowing them in on a longboat from larger ships stationed offshore.

 

The population of the Pitcairn Islands is 47 (a July 2003 estimate).  People living on the Pitcairn Islands are known as Pitcairn Islander(s), or a Pitcairn Islander.  The people on Pitcairn Islands are descendants of the Bounty mutineers and their Tahitian wives.  The only religion on the island is Seventh-Day Adventist, which 100% of the island is a part of!

 

English is the official language of the Pitcairn Islands, but Pitcairnese (a mixture of an 18th century English dialect and a Tahitian dialect).

 

The conventional long form of the Pitcairn Islands is Pitcairn, Henderson, Ducie, and Oeno Islands.  The conventional short form of the Pitcairn Islands is the Pitcairn Islands.  The Pitcairn Islands are an overseas territory of the UK.  The capital of the island is Adamstown.  The constitution was passed in 1838, reformed in 1904, and additional reforms were added in 1940. The Constitution was further refined by the Local Government Ordinance of 1964.  The legal system on the islands is local island by-laws.

 

To vote you must be 18 years of age (universal with three years of residency).  The island's have an Island Council, which 10 members serve on.  6 were voted on by popular vote, 1 was appointed by the 6, 2 by the governor of the islands, and one seat is for the Island Secretary.  Members of the Island Council serve one-year terms!  The Judicial branch on the Pitcairn Islands is the Island Court.  The Island Court is an island magistrate the presides over thec ourt and is elected every three years!  The Pitcairn Islands participate in SPC.  The flag used on the Pitcairn Islands is a blue with the flag of the UK in the upper hoist-side quadrant and the Pitcairn Islander coat of arms centered on the outer half of the flag; the coat of arms is yellow, green, and light blue with a shield featuring a yellow anchor .

 

The inhabitants of this tiny isolated economy exist on fishing, subsistence farming, handicrafts, and postage stamps. The fertile soil of the valleys produces a wide variety of fruits and vegetables, including citrus, sugarcane, watermelons, bananas, yams, and beans. Bartering is an important part of the economy. The major sources of revenue are the sale of postage stamps to collectors and the sale of handicrafts to passing ships.  (CIA Worldfact Book Quote).