Henderson Island

See also: Henderson

Henderson Island is a elevated Atoll uninhabited (Makatea) Tectonique lies located in the Pacific Ocean southern which belongs to the British colony of the islands Pitcairn since its annexation in 1902.

Located by at approximately 200 km in the East of the island Pitcairn, the capital of the territory, Henderson 31 km ² measure. Henderson belongs to the Liste of the world heritage established by UNESCO since 1988, thanks to the birds which populate it and its reserves of not exploited Phosphate. The island in itself is too small and too escarpée for agriculture and does not have any source of drinking water.

The island is uninhabited (and uninhabitable), but of the archaeological discoveries suggest that she nevertheless was inhabited by a colony permanent Polynésie between the 13th century and 15th century. The causes of the disappearance of this colony are unknown, but could be related to that of the Polynesians of the Pitcairn island, from which it would have depended (the Polynesians on Pitcairn when to them would have disappeared following the decline from Mangareva; Henderson would thus have been at the end of a chain of small dependant colonies).

Nowadays, Henderson is seldom visited, except by inhabitants of the Pitcairn island in the search of wood. In 1957, a man lived like shipwrecked man on the island for two months, accompanied by one chimpanzée tamed, apparently for advertizing reasons. It was finally collected by inhabitants of Pitcairn.

See too

Internal bonds

Islands Pitcairn

External bonds

The Henderson Island Website

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