Oeno Island Explained

Oeno
Area Km2:20
Location:Southern Pacific Ocean
Coordinates:-23.9267°N -130.7372°W
Total Islands:2–3
Country:Pitcairn Islands
Population:Uninhabited

Oeno Island [1] or Holiday Island[2] is an uninhabited coral atoll in the South Pacific Ocean, part of the Pitcairn Islands overseas territory. It is part of the Pitcairn Island Group, together with Pitcairn, Henderson and Ducie islands.

Geography

Oeno Island is located 143km (89miles) northwest of Pitcairn Island, at -23.9239°N -130.7342°W. Oeno Atoll measures about 5km (03miles) in diameter, including the central lagoon, with a total area exceeding 20km2. There are two larger and three smaller islets on or within the rim of the atoll. Their aggregate land area is only 0.69km2. Oeno serves as a private holiday site for the few residents of Pitcairn Island, who travel there and stay for two weeks in January because Oeno has beaches while Pitcairn doesn't.[3] [4]

The main island (Oeno Island), about 50ha in area, has forest and scrub with pandanus and palm trees. It is located in the southwest part of the atoll's lagoon. There is a water tap installed on the island.[5] The maximum elevation is less than . Sandy Island (or Islands) is to the northeast, within the lagoon, and may be an ephemeral island. Three smaller islets are to the south and west of the main island.

Important Bird Area

The island has been identified by BirdLife International as an Important Bird Area (IBA) principally for its colony of Murphy's petrels, which, at some 12,500 pairs, is estimated to be the second largest colony of these birds in the world.[6]

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Notes and References

  1. The name is not Polynesian but Greek. The island was named after the whaling ship Œno . However, the islanders pronounce as if each vowel letter were a syllable, as in Polynesian names.
  2. Web site: Oeno Island Photo Tour. Pitcairn Islands Study Center.
  3. Book: South Pacific & Micronesia. 2006. Lonely Planet. 978-1-74104-304-4. 427. Unless you've got your own yacht, your only chance of getting to Oeno is in January, when Pitcairners fit out two of their longboats with essential supplies and swap everyday life on Pitcairn for a fortnight's summer holiday on Oeno.. registration.
  4. Web site: Oeno Island . Pitcairn Island Study Center . Pacific Union College . 21 September 2019 . According to the Guide to Pitcairn ... Oeno is also a retreat for the Pitcairners, who usually make a trip during the summer to enjoy the beaches that Pitcairn does not have..
  5. http://library.puc.edu/pitcairn/pitcairn/OenoPhotoTour/4.shtml Fresh water is pumped out of a well dug in the sand
  6. Web site: BirdLife International. Oeno Island. Sites - Important Bird Areas (IBAs). 3 November 2012.
  7. Book: Dehner, Steve. THE ARMCHAIR NAVIGATOR I: Supplements to Post-Spanish Discoveries in The Pacific. Bad Tattoo Inc.. 2019. 2–7.
  8. Web site: Wreck Of The Wild Wave 1858 - Shipwrecked on Pitcairn Island's Oeno . wheresmamba . 21 September 2019 . Source - Shipmasters of Cape Cod, by Henry C. Kittredge . 21 September 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190921151950/https://www.wheresmamba.com/single-post/2017/10/19/Wreck-Of-The-Wildwave-1858---Shipwrecked-on-Pitcairn-Islands-Oeno#! . dead .
  9. Web site: Shipwrecks . Pitcairn Islands Philatelic Bureau . Government of the Pitcairn Islands . 21 September 2019 . 22 June 1994 . The first locally recorded shipwreck was that of the Wildwave when she was outward bound from San Francisco and struck the reef of Oeno Island in March 1858..
  10. Book: Silverman, David . Pitcairn Island . 1967 . World Publishing Company . Cleveland, Ohio . 125 . 11 August 2012 . registration .
  11. Web site: Shipwrecks . Pitcairn Islands Philatelic Bureau . Government of the Pitcairn Islands . 21 September 2019 . 22 June 1994 . 23 August 1883 ... the Pitcairners found a boat belonging to the barque Oregon bound from Oregon to Chile which had struck the reefs of Oeno..
  12. News: Total solar eclipse hits South America. 2 July 2019. BBC News. 3 July 2019. en-GB.

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