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	ipedia.com: Pitcairn Islands Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The islands are known mostly because the original settlers were mutineers of HMS Bounty, as well as Tahitians those mutineers took along, as described in the book Mutiny on the Bounty, later depicted in a number of movies.
		Since a population peak of 233 in 1937, the island is suffering from emigration, primarily to New Zealand, leaving a current population of approximately 50.
		Pitcairn and Henderson are volcanic islands, and Ducie is a coral atoll.
	www.ipedia.com /pitcairn_islands.html (1074 words)

	Pitcairn Government
		Pitcairn Island, the smallest British protectorate in the world, is governed from the United Kingdom by an appointed Governor whose offices are in Wellington, New Zealand.
		On Pitcairn Island there is the Island Council which meets with the island’s Mayor in charge.
		According to the government-published Guide to Pitcairn, “The Council has authority to enact laws of the nature of by-laws which must be notified to the Governor, in whom resides the power of revocation and alteration.
	library.puc.edu /pitcairn/pitcairn/govt.shtml (538 words)

	Pitcairn Islands, Map and Flag
		Pitcairn Island was discovered in 1767 by the British and settled in 1790 by the Bounty mutineers and their Tahitian companions.
		Pitcairn was the first Pacific island to become a British colony (in 1838) and today remains the last vestige of that empire in the South Pacific.
		Britain's most isolated dependency; only the larger island of Pitcairn is inhabited but it has no port or natural harbor; supplies must be transported by rowed longboat from larger ships stationed offshore
	www.greatestcities.com /Oceania/Pitcairn_Islands.html (727 words)

	The World Factbook 2004 -- Pitcairn Islands
		elections: the monarchy is hereditary; high commissioner and commissioner appointed by the monarch; island mayor elected by popular vote for a three-year term; election last held NA December 2002 (next to be held NA December 2005)
		unicameral Island Council (10 seats - 5 elected by popular vote, 1 nominated by the 5 elected members, 2 appointed by the governor including 1 seat for the Island Secretary, the Island Mayor, and a commissioner liaising between the governor and council; elected members serve one-year terms)
		Island Court (island magistrate, appointed by the governor, presides over the court)
	www.brainyatlas.com /geos/pc.html (661 words)

	Timeline 1855-1859
		Fremont went on to serve as territorial governor of Arizona from 1878 to 1883.
		Gold-seeking settlers at the foot of the Rockies decided to call their settlement "Denver" after the governor of the Kansas Territory, in which the settlement was located.
		The British had settled the island with African slaves and the islanders speak English with a Caribbean accent.
	timelines.ws /1855_1859.HTML (13738 words)

	Regional: Oceania: Pitcairn Islands - Cyclopedia.ws
		47 square km (Pitcairn, Henderson, Ducie, and Oeno Islands)
		Queen ELIZABETH II, represented by UK High Commissioner to New Zealand and Governor (nonresident) of the Pitcairn Islands Martin WILLIAMS
		Mayor and Chairman of the Island Council Steve CHRISTIAN
	cyclopedia.ws /home.aspx/Regional/Oceania/Pitcairn_Islands (114 words)

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