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  • a good, sound-hearted, respectable farmer's daughter from a neck of land across the bay, known as Pig Island, and had settled down to what promised to be a decent, prosperous life.

    Shapes that Haunt the Dusk Henry Mills Alden 1877

  • South Island, the larger of the pair, is also known locally as "the Mainland," while North Island, where three-quarters of the population lives, is also called "Pig Island," partly for the wild pigs that English explorer James Cook brought during a visit and that still roam in the wilderness.

    GJSentinel - Latest News Headlines 2009

  • "the Mainland," while North Island, where three-quarters of the population lives, is also called "Pig Island," partly for the wild pigs that Cook brought during a visit and that still roam in

    KOLO - HomePage - Headlines 2009

  • Then there's Pig Island's offspring, including a mechanical sculpture of George W Bush having his wicked way with a swine.

    This week's new exhibitions 2011

  • The centrepiece is Pig Island, an installation of an artist's studio littered with paint cans, fast-food boxes and replica body parts.

    This week's new exhibitions 2011

  • We visited Paul McCarthy's installation of his seven year-long project Pig Island.

    ART BASEL EXCLUSIVE: By Bettina Korek 2010

  • I recently ran into this problem with Mo Hayder's Pig Island.

    How did this so great, turn so shitty? Tripp 2009

  • Several installations in this vast show involve George Bush in compromising positions with pigs: in one, a pair of mechanically gyrating pink silicone versions of Bush sodomise the animals, while in Pig Island 2003/10, the same scenario is accompanied by depictions of Angelina Jolie and sundry pirates in what looks like the detritus-filled studio of a demented satirist.

    Evening Standard - Home Ben Luke 2011

  • From the team behind Meatopia and Pig Island, this first-ever two day boozevent's kicking off the summer by bringing top-notch brewers together with purveyors of some of the city's best food, lining their stations along a stretch of Gov Island known as Colonel's Row for its 19thC Officer's Quarters, a perfect setting for you to get historically housed.

    The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Thrillist 2011

  • Dustin Hoffman swam off that Pig Island in Serpico.

    Bush Exiled to Isle of St. Helena 2009

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