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Pitcairn Island (exploration)

science · 03 July 1767 · 258 years ago

Pitcairn Island Pitcairn Island in the Pacific Ocean is sighted from HMS Swallow (1766) by 15-year-old Midshipman Robert Pitcairn on a British Royal Navy expeditionary voyage commanded by Philip Carteret, the first definite European sighting.

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