 Map of Pitcairn Islands, with inset of Ducie Island Ducie Island, a rarely visited island atoll, has been part of the Pitcairn Islands since 1902. There are no local inhabitants - no one lives there permantly. Image File history File links Ducie. ...
An atoll is a type of low, coral island found in tropical oceans and consisting of a coral-algal reef surrounding a central depression. ...
1902 (MCMII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ...
The atoll is located 540 km east of Pitcairn at 24°40′09″S, 124°47′11″W, and has a total area, including the lagoon, of 6 km2. It is 2.4 km long, northeast to southwest, and about 1.6 km wide. There are four islets on the rim of the atoll: This mid bay barrier in Narrabeen, a suburb of Sydney (Australia), has blocked what used to be a bay to form a lagoon. ...
- Acadia Islet (largest islet, along the north and east rim)
- Pandora Islet (second largest, in the south)
- Edwards Islet (immediately east of Pandora Islet)
- Westward Islet (smallest, west of Pandora Islet)
The land area is 0.7 km2. The maximum elevation is 4 m. 70 percent of the land is forested with Tournefortia Argentea (a common tree throughout the Pacific Ocean, except Hawaii), which grow to a height of 6 m. Two other plant species were reported in 1971 but were not found in 1987. The lagoon is deep and noted for its poisonous fish and extremely dangerous sharks. Official language(s) English, Hawaiian Capital Honolulu Largest city Honolulu Area Ranked 43rd - Total 10,941 sq mi (28,337 km²) - Width n/a miles (n/a km) - Length 1,522 miles (2,450 km) - % water 41. ...
Portuguese sailor Pedro Fernandez de Quiros discovered Ducie on 26th January 1606 and named it La Encarnación. It was later rediscovered by the British in 1791 by Captain Edward Edwards who commanded the Pandora while searching for the mutineers from the Bounty. Ducie Island is named after Baron Francis Ducie, a captain in the Royal Navy. HMS Pandora was a 24-gun frigate of the Royal Navy, built by Adams and Barnard at Deptford, and launched on 17 May 1779. ...
The mutineers turning Lt Bligh and some of the officers and crew adrift from HMAV Bounty, 29 April 1789. ...
The title of Earl of Ducie was created in the Peerage of the United Kingdom in 1837. ...
In 2003, Canadian Amateur Radio operators launched a DXpedition on Ducie Island using the callsign VP6DIA. Amateur radio, often called ham radio, is a hobby enjoyed by about 3 million people[1] throughout the world. ...
Gerry Lynch, G0RTN, operates from the shack of Chris Dabrowski, A45XR, on a holiday DXpedition to Muscat, Oman in January 2005. ...
External links
- A visit to Ducie Island (April 1998) with some photos
- Map of the island
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