PITCAIRN ISLANDS

In fact, no total eclipse for the next thousand years will pass over the Pitcairn Islands at the right time of day to end the streak.

事实上，在接下去的几千年里皮特凯恩岛上空都不会发生日全食，也就不会终结大英帝国的日不落神话。

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Pitcairn Island is a tiny speck of land located nearly dead in the center of the southern Pacific Ocean. Its closest neighbors are the Gambier Islands and Tahiti to the West, but even these are several hundred miles away.

皮特凯恩岛，是孤悬在太平洋中南部的小岛，其近邻分别是西边的甘比尔群岛和塔希提岛，虽然说是距离最近的，但是也相距700多英里。

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Every night, around midnight GMT, the Sun sets on the Cayman Islands, and doesn't rise over the British Indian Ocean Territory until after 1:00 A.M. For that hour, the little Pitcairn Islands in the South Pacific are the only British territory in the Sun.

每天晚上在格林威治时间午夜前后，开曼群岛上空的太阳就会落下，而太阳要在凌晨1点以后才会在英属印度洋领地升起。在这段时间内，南太平洋上小小的皮特凯恩群岛是唯一能够看到太阳的英国领地。

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The Pitcairn Islands have a population of a few dozen people, the descendants of the mutineers from the HMS Bounty.

皮特凯恩岛上只有几十人，都是当年英国皇家海军“邦蒂号”上的叛变船员的后裔。

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Henderson Island, part of the UK's Pitcairn Islands group, has an estimated 37.7 million pieces of debris on its beaches.

亨德森岛是英属皮特凯恩群岛的一部分，其海滩上的塑料垃圾预估高达3770万件。

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