three tropical cyclones are active simultaneously in the South Pacific. This vast region, which stretches from the Coral Sea in the west to the Pitcairn Islands in the east, is home to numerous ...

Pitcairn Island is a lonely lump of rock stuck in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, 3,500 miles from the nearest continent, and 350 miles from the nearest inhabited place Mangareva, in French ...

Henderson Island is part of the U.K.'s Pitcairn Islands ... The island sits near the center of the South Pacific Gyre, an ocean current that sweeps up debris carried from South America and ...

The least populated territory in the world is in the middle of the Pacific Ocean - more than 3,000 miles from any continent. As of July 2014, only 48 people call the Pitcairn Islands and their ...

The coast of Chile lies 2,300 miles to the east, Tahiti 2,500 miles to the northwest, and the nearest island, with a total population of 54 people, is tiny Pitcairn island, 1,400 miles to the west.