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Ducie Atoll (Pitcairn Islands)


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    • Ducie Island (Pitcairn Islands)
    • Luna Puesta Island (Pitcairn Islands)

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    • found: Work cat.: Rehder, H.A. Ducie Atoll, 1975:p. 1 (Ducie Atoll (24°40ʹS, 124°47ʹW), more commonly known as Ducie Island, lies 293 miles east of Pitcairn and 830 miles west-northwest of Easter Island; one of the Pitcairn Islands; together with the two other satellite islands, Oeno and Henderson, was officially annexed to Pitcairn in 1902)
    • found: GEOnet, Sept. 4, 2015(Ducie Atoll (approved); Ducie (short); variants: Ducie; Ducie Island; atoll; Pitcairn Islands; 24°40ʹ00ʺS, 124°47ʹ00ʺW (-24.666667, -124.783333))
    • found: Wikipedia, Sept. 4, 2015(Ducie Island; an uninhabited atoll in the Pitcairn Islands. It lies 290 miles (470 km) east of Pitcairn and has a total area of 1.5 square miles (3.9 km2), which includes the lagoon. It is 1.5 miles (2.4 km) long, measured northeast to southwest, and about 1 mile (1.6 km) wide. The island is composed of four islets: Acadia, Pandora, Westward and Edwards; first discovered in 1606 by Pedro Fernandes de Queirós, who named it Luna Puesta, and rediscovered by Edward Edwards, captain of HMS Pandora, who was sent in 1790 to capture the mutineers of HMS Bounty. He named the island Ducie in honour of Francis Reynolds-Moreton, 3rd Baron Ducie. In 1867 it was claimed by the United States under the Guano Islands Act, but the United Kingdom annexed it on 19 December 1902 as part of the Pitcairn Islands; 24°40ʹ09ʺS 124°47ʹ11ʺW)

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    • 2015-09-04: new
    • 2015-12-04: revised

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