Jane's Oceania - Pitcairn Islands
A small volcanic island, rugged in appearance rising to 330m, it is situated in the Pacific Ocean roughly mid-way between Panama and New Zealand, east south east of Tahiti. Even at Bounty Bay, the only landing place, access to Pitcairn Island from the sea is difficult.
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- Pitcairn Islands The Pitcairn Islands are a loosely grouped handful of tiny islands in the remote South Pacific, farther from any continent than any other inhabited island. The islands are the last British colony in the South Pacific and most isolated British dependency. The rugged main island was settled by the infamous mutineers of the Bounty and their Polynesian companions, and most of Pitcairn's mere four dozen current inhabitants are their descendants. |
Paradise
Adventures - Pitcairn Islands
Pacific Expeditions to Pitcairn Island aboard Bounty Bay expedition vessel,
Pitcairn Island cruises, Pitcairn Island scuba diving, South Pacific surfing
cruise, Pitcairn Island bird watching, sports fishing in the South Pacific,
Henderson Island cruises, Gambier Islands cruising, diving the HMS Bounty
and S/V Cornwallis shipwrecks, scuba diving at Oeno
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Travel Guide - Pitcairn Islands
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.
Lonely
Planet - Pitcairn Islands
The Pitcairn Islands are not on any international air routes and getting
there is strictly for the determined, but that can be precisely the attraction
in a world increasingly at our fingertips. Once there, check out ancient
Polynesian rock carvings and the Bounty Bible.