We stopped at this island, well went around it really as there is no real place to even tender in. The locals, most all of whom are descendants of the mutiny, came out in a boat to pick up supplies the ship had brought for them. There are about 60 people that live on the island. There are only 4 family names Christian, Warren, Young & Brown. Pitcairn is the least populous and most remote jurisdiction in the world.
We sailed from south of Lima Peru for 4 days sailing to get to Easter Island; then another 2 and half days to get to Pitcairn Island. It is yet another 2 days sail to get to Tahiti. Remember we are on a cruise ship. Back in the day it was sailing ships. In fact they read to us about the first sighting of the island that is named for the guy that first saw it. They told us that it was something like 15 weeks of sailing after sighting the island before they actually reached it. Ok, now you have an idea of just how remote this island is. After the Mutiny it was 18 years before someone next came to the island. When they did there was one man, 9 women and 23 children living there. Here is a picture of the island;
Botany Bay is just to the right of center and that is where the wreck of the HMS Bounty is.
This is a picture of almost all the locals coming out to our ship to pick up supplies. The second picture is one of them leaving the ship and you can see the pile of supplies we brought them, we paid for the supplies too I might add, well the ship did.
As we cruised around the island enjoying the scenery we almost thought we had gone back in time when we rounded the last corner of the island at Fletcher Christian point. Look at the picture to see why;
It was an amazing day and one of wonder to visit such an historic place.
Very interesting!