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Pitcairn Island travel guide: ... (Explore Pitcairn in 360-degrees via Street View below) Pitcairn Island offers many secluded, rocky bays for visitors to explore. Credit: Craig Tansley.
Hidden deep in the vast expanse of the Pacific Ocean, the Pitcairn Islands form one of the most remote and unique communities on Earth. This tiny British Overseas Territory consists of four ...
The island is part of the larger Pitcairn Islands, which includes the uninhabited Henderson, Ducie, and Oeno Islands. They form the UK’s sole overseas territory in the Pacific Ocean.
Sunnyvale resident Laura Lorman recently returned from a trip to Pitcairn Island, one of the most remote places on earth, settled by the mutineers of the famous HMS Bounty.
After being cast adrift in a small open boat somewhere off the coast of Samoa on April 28 1789, Lieutenant William Bligh and 18 loyalists watched the Bounty slowly slip from view.
The great brass bell across from the Assembly Hall on Pitcairn Island clanged gladly one sundown last fortnight. Through the dim light a ship had just been sighted, and the 200-odd hybrid ...
One thing above all others the British Navy was slow to forgive: mutiny. Though Pitcairn Island had become a British colony in 1893, British ships still shunned the faraway, surf-swept island ...