Pitcairn Islands (Island Week 2)
Tuesday, 28th August 2007 by James Turnbull
(It’s Island Week 2 here at GSS, which means we’ll mostly be posting about Islands. For about a week.)
The Pitcairns are a group of four islands: Pitcairn, Henderson, Ducie, and Oeno, which are all located near New Zealand in the Pacific Ocean.
The islands are classed as a British overseas territory and have an official population of just 48, making them the least populated jurisdiction in the world.
All 48 of the islands' inhabitants, who are just 9 different families, live in Adamstown on the main island of Pitcairn. Adamstown is therefore unchallenged as the capital city, and with that title earns the record for World's smallest capital city.
The population is unlikely to rise anytime soon; the islanders mostly descend from British mutineers of the HMAV Bounty and only two children have been born in the last 21 years.
Wikipedia Links: Pitcairn Islands and Adamstown.
Thanks: koen & tizerst
Strange how you can zoom in, but not out…
I would LOVE to visit these places sometime. I wonder what it feels like to be so far, far, far away from everyone else on the planet?
They have no airport there! Wikipedia says:
Mental!
It is also the place where more than half of the male population are rapists.
It is also interesting to note that the first native women were not actually native… they were kidnapped by the HMAV Bounty mutineers from a neighboring island and taken to Pitcairn.
I guess an apple can’t fall too far from the tree…
I would stay away from this place…
Here’s the story: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/3709328.stm
Wait, so if I show up with say 100 bullets and a machine gun, I could own some islands?
insofar as the “rape” thing goes, I mean come on…..it’s not like there is a whole heck of a lot else to do. Look at how tiny that friggin island is for krissakes!!
There may be no airport, but there is a runway…
https://www.googlesightseeing.com/maps?p=&c=&t=k&hl=en&ll=-23.07989,-134.88812&z=15
That airport is not technically part of Pitcairn. It’s part of the Gambier Islands.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gambier_Islands
How about using a boat plane???? No runway needed when you can land on the water…………
snap I guess that shows how much I know about small, Pacific islands.
“…located near New Zealand…”
This sure is a redefinition of “near”.