25°04′S · 130°06′W
Pitcairn
Islands
South Pacific · 2024
Introduction
Four remote islands and the sole British Overseas Territory in the Pacific, home to the descendants of the Bounty mutineers and their Tahitian companions. Their waters are now one of the largest fully protected marine reserves on Earth
- Population
- 50
- Area
- 47km²
- Settled
- c. 1100 AD
- Isolation
- 2,170km
- Country
- British Overseas Territory
- Language
- English, Pitkern
- Issues
- Invasive species, Plastic pollution, Depopulation
About the island
Pitcairn is one of the most remote inhabited places on the planet. To reach it you travel to Mangareva in the Gambier Islands, then spend two days at sea on a supply ship. The territory is made up of four islands: Pitcairn, the only inhabited one, plus Henderson, Ducie and Oeno. They are scattered across several hundred kilometres of ocean.
The community that lives here descends from the mutineers of HMS Bounty and their Tahitian companions, who settled Pitcairn in 1790. More than two centuries later, a few dozen people live in a single village, Adamstown, on a slope 120 to 150 metres above sea level.
Photography
- 45
- Permanent residents approximately
- 830,000 km²
- Marine reserve designated in 2016, where industrial fishing and mining are prohibited.
- 90%
- Of the world's Murphy's petrels nest in the island group.
25°04′S · 130°06′W
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25°04′S · 130°06′WAbout 2,170 km southeast of Tahiti, reached only by sea voyage from Mangareva.
Visited in 2024
