If you lived in Pitcairn Islands instead of Heard Island and McDonald Islands, you would:

Geography

see 50.0% less coastline

Heard Island and McDonald Islands has a total of 102 km of coastline. In Pitcairn Islands, that number is 51 km.


The statistics above were calculated using the following data sources: The World Factbook.

Pitcairn Islands: At a glance

Pitcairn Islands is a sovereign country in Australia-Oceania, with a total land area of approximately 47 sq km. Pitcairn Island was discovered in 1767 by the British and settled in 1790 by the Bounty mutineers and their Tahitian companions. Pitcairn was the first Pacific island to become a British colony (in 1838) and today remains the last vestige of that empire in the South Pacific. Outmigration, primarily to New Zealand, has thinned the population from a peak of 233 in 1937 to less than 50 today.
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