Pitcairn Islands Guide

Introduction to Pitcairn

Legendary Pitcairn, last refuge of HMS Bounty's mutinous crew, is the remotest populated place in the South Pacific.

This tiny colony, founded in 1790 by nine fugitive Englishmen and 19 Polynesians, is presently more than 200 years old.

It's one of the ironies of history that Pitcairn, born out of treason to the British crown, was the first Pacific island to become a British colony (in 1838) and remains today the last remnant of that empire in the Pacific.