Ducie Island

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 island, atoll, uninhabited island
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Ducie Island (0.7 km2) is an uninhabited atoll linked administratively with Pitcairn Island, which lies 540 kilometers to the west.
land area is 0.7 square kilometres (170 acres). The maximum elevation is 4 metres (13 ft). Seventy percent of the land is forested with Tournefortia argentea (a common tree throughout many of the Pacific Ocean islands), which grows to a height of 6 metres (20 ft). 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 dangerous sharks.
History Portuguese sailor Pedro Fernandes de Queirós discovered Ducie on January 26, 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. The island was claimed in 1867 for the United States under the Guano Islands Act and the UK annexed the island in 1902. For the purposes of amateur radio, Ducie became a DXCC country on November 16th 2001 and the first expedition was led by Kan Mizoguchi, JA1BK, in March 2002 using the VP6DI callsign. In 2003, Canadian amateur radio operators launched a DXpedition on Ducie Island using the callsign VP6DIA. In February, 2008, an international group of amateur radio operators visited Ducie for a DXpedition using the callsign VP6DX. They made 183,686 contacts, setting a new record for DXpeditions. One of the participants in the feat was Tõnno Vähk, an investment banker and one of the owners of Gild Bankers.
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ducie_Island
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Coordinates:   24°40'59"S   124°47'7"W

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  • History Portuguese sailor Pedro Fernandes de Queirós discovered Ducie on January 26, 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. The island was claimed in 1867 for the United States under the Guano Islands Act and the UK annexed the island in 1902. For the purposes of amateur radio, Ducie became a DXCC country on November 16th 2001 and the first expedition was led by Kan Mizoguchi, JA1BK, in March 2002 using the VP6DI callsign. In 2003, Canadian amateur radio operators launched a DXpedition on Ducie Island using the callsign VP6DIA. In February, 2008, an international group of amateur radio operators visited Ducie for a DXpedition using the callsign VP6DX. They made 183,686 contacts, setting a new record for DXpeditions. One of the participants in the feat was Tõnno Vähk, an investment banker and one of the owners of Gild Bankers.
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  • land area is 0.7 square kilometres (170 acres). The maximum elevation is 4 metres (13 ft). Seventy percent of the land is forested with Tournefortia argentea (a common tree throughout many of the Pacific Ocean islands), which grows to a height of 6 metres (20 ft). Two other plant species were reported in 1971 but were not found in 1987[citation needed]. The lagoon is deep and noted for its poisonous fish and dangerous sharks.
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