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The Pitcairn Islands, South Pacific Ocean: plate tectonic and climatic contexts

date_range 1995
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Author SPENCER T.
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Abstract The remote Pitcairn Group in the South Pacific Ocean comprises a volcanic island (Pitcairn Island), two low coral atolls (Oeno, Ducie) and a raised coralline island (Henderson Island). The geological history of these islands, on anomalously thin oceanic lithosphere, is related to the development of two subparallel island chains (Oeno‐Henderson‐Ducie; Pitcairn) associated with intra‐Pacific plate ‘hotspot’ activity; the surface manifestation of this activity has been partly determined by structural lineations in the plate inherited from past plate history. The climate of the Pitcairn Islands is determined by the position of the subtropical high pressure system and the South Pacific Convergence Zone. Variations in the strength of this atmospheric circulation system, measured by changes in the Southern Oscillation index of pressure difference, provide a partial explanation of the long‐term variability of mean annual rainfall at Pitcairn Island. Knowledge of past climates in the Pitcairn Group remains speculative. Maps of the Pitcairn Islands and a report of climate at Henderson Island (2/91‐1/92) are included in the paper. Copyright © 1995, Wiley Blackwell. All rights reserved
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DOI 10.1111/j.1095-8312.1995.tb01076.x
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Journal Biological Journal of the Linnean Society
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