help - visit to anuta

hi
anyone please please help me ? i want to get to anuta - how can i do it???
please - any information will be good

thx
meny

I presume you mean in the Solomons??

"i want to get to anuta - how can i do it" - from where??

There is basically only one way to get to Anuta, and that is by sea.
Some visitors, eg the one on the BBC (I think) documentary, get there by private yacht.
Apart from that, irregular shipping travels there from Honiara, the capital of Solomon Islands, generally calling at Lata, on Santa Cruz island, capital of Temotu Province, on the way. It is possible to fly (once or twice a week) from Honiara to Lata, which cuts your travel time in the small ferry by half.
Generally, boats get to Anuta once every six months or so. The Church of Melanesia ship, Southern Cross, also travels around the islands of Temotu Province once every year or so, so the Bishop can make his pastoral visits. This is generally the better ship to travel on, and it is possible to pay for passage on it.
It has the advantage of generally staying more than a day on the general area, while the cargo/passenger boats generaly only stop to unload and load, and if you disembark, you might be waiting for months to get another ship off the island.

thx
and what about "Pitcairn Island"?
any chance o get over there?
how much does it cost more or less?

thx

There are a few commercial cruises (quite expensive) to Pitcairn (I think mostly American-based) You would need to google them.
Otherwise, cargo boat from Tahiti (the nearest country).
Their closest large country contact is New Zealand.
There have been a number of changes since the celebrated sexual abuse trials starting in 2004, so you would need to Google Pitcairn for more information.

I found a video on You tube which explains some of the difficulties of getting to Anuta; here

Ah- ok. But those guys do that all the time and know how to get in and out of the reef. It is terrifying to the new comer for sure- we did it once at night in Kosrae with 3 kids in the boat, and a couple of lobsters who were only sort of contained. Yes it was one of the scariest things I think I have done- I could see nothing because there were no lights, I could hear the surf, and I was sure we were dead. But the islanders know how to do it and just laughed. I will admit to having been very very happy to get out of the dingy alive.

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I think the crossing on the video was one of the tamer ones. I have done similar ones in a couple of other parts of Solomon Islands. The text next to the video indicates that at times you cannot land at all. With ships reaching Anuta an average of once a year, it means that you may get all the way there and not be able to land, or if you land and wait for the next ship, you may not be able to get off.

But there are usually breaks in the reef allowing people to get in. As far as not being able to get off- I suppose you could get word to work saying you have been stuck on an island and will get back as soon as possible- like, a year from now? Imagine getting stuck for a year. In my dreams.

I think the problem with Anuta, as with 2 other islands in Solomon Islands, Sikaiana, one of the Polynesian outlyers in Malaita Province, and Nukapu, in the Reef Islands of Temotu Province, is that there are no breaks in the reef.
I visited Sikiana in virtually dead calm seas - the boat (a "tinny" similar to the one in the video) had about an inch of clearance crossing the reef. In rough seas, and particularly in cyclone season, you could be in big trouble if you tried to cross.
Until recently, Anuta didn't even have reliable two-way radio contact with the rest of the world.

Maybe the time has come for these places to consider MAKING a break in the reef. In the meantime, getting there sounds like half the "fun". Are they interesting once you are there? Hardly sounds like a great place for any kind of group excursion.

Nukapu has historical interest - the murder of Bishop John Coleridge Patteson there was the catalyst in ending the slave trade called "blackbirding". For this reason it is something of an Anglican shrine, or place of pilgrimage. It also has a unique blend of Polynesian and Melanesian culture.
I have a friend who comes from there and has been trying to take me there for some time, but getting there is difficult (nowhere near as hard as Anuta though, as it is possibel to travel about 3 hours by outboard from Lata, or about 1 hour from the main Reef Islands.
Sikaiana, which I have visited, is beautiful, but as most of its people now live on the outskirts of Honiara, it has a feel of neglect, which I did not see in the islands of the Ontong Java atoll, on the same trip.