Population Of Pitcairn
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Hits Record Low
The population of Pitcairn Island, which has dropped sharply during the past two or three years, reached its lowest figure for well over a century recently when 49 Pitcairners left their island for a week's holiday at Oeno. Oeno is an atoll about 75 miles north of Pitcairn.
While the 49 Pitcairners were gone, the population of their island
was down to 41—17 men, 18 women and six children, of whom 10 were visitors.
Veteran Pitcairner Roy P. Clark, who was one of the 41 who stayed behind, said in an article in "Pitcairn Miscellany" for March that the ab scene of more than half the popula tion at Oeno created a feeling of loneliness on Pitcairn "somewhat like the first 'Bounty' settlers must have felt away from all civilisation, cast away by their own consent on this lonely island in the great Pacific".