wildlife
Henderson Island
A remote raised atoll shelters birds and plants found nowhere else.
The story behind the place
Henderson is a raised coral island in the Pitcairn group, with limestone cliffs, forest and breeding seabirds. Its isolation makes it valuable for studying island evolution. All four of its land-bird species are endemic. Archaeological evidence also records earlier Polynesian settlement, so remoteness should not be confused with an absence of human history.
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Read more from the sources
- Henderson Island — UNESCO World Heritage CentreUNESCO World Heritage Centre
