Regular boat service to start to Pitcairn from FP

This would be an interesting trip :)

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10568951</a>

Mutineers' isle opens up to world
4:00AM Tuesday Apr 28, 2009

Tiny Pitcairn Island embarks on a venture to attract tourists to its remote shores

A New Zealand shipping company is helping remote Pitcairn Island open up to the outside world, after more than two centuries of shunning contact.

To mark today's 220th anniversary of the famed mutiny on the Bounty that led to its becoming a hiding place from the world, Pitcairn is inviting the world to its shores.

In 1789, mutineers seized the British ship Bounty, set Captain William Bligh and some of his crew adrift and sailed away, eventually arriving on Pitcairn.

The island now has 60 inhabitants, 51 of whom are descendants of the mutineers.

Halfway between New Zealand and Chile, it has 4.6sq km of land, no airport, one cafe and no hotels or motels.

Promoting itself as a "get-away-from-it-all" holiday spot where visitors will be put up in homestays, the island is gearing up to accommodate tourists when a regular passenger-freight service starts in September.

Stoney Creek Shipping Company is offering a service that will involve the once-a-week Air Tahiti flight from Papeete, Tahiti, to Mangareva in French Polynesia, then a two-day, 480km boat trip to Pitcairn.

In the past, only one ship every several months has regularly travelled from Mangareva to Pitcairn.

The island is promoting eco-walks and a museum loaded with artefacts, relics from HMS Bounty, and historical records.

Visitors to Pitcairn need a visa, and a licence to import or drink alcohol.

The island has internet and telephone services and there are plans for windpower to provide electricity 24 hours a day.

Pitcairn hit the headlines five years ago when eight men from the British-controlled territory were convicted of raping and sexually assaulting young girls. A ninth man pleaded guilty.

• NZPA

"Pitcairn hit the headlines five years ago when eight men from the British-controlled territory were convicted of raping and sexually assaulting young girls. A ninth man pleaded guilty."
and that is why I'll never go near the place not in a million years-those rapists are walking around free today unpunished and unrepentant

its a long trip though and i am not sure if it is worth the whole effort,
i was recently in tubuai in the austral islands and i think ,though the island is beautiful and all that, its simply nothing special there, and all this south sea romantic is obviously long gone.
The alcohol ban or license to bring is a very good idea, cause alcohol is a real problem on these remote islands

Actually, those guys will probably be the "official' tour guides, that should be interesting![]'

mutneers gone wild....or shall i say, rapists?

Child molestors actually.

Excerpt from the Times Online (UK) - be sure to read the last sentence

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/article498767.ece

"The guilty men, all of whom claim some ancestry from the mutineers, include all the powerful men of this island. Mayor Steve Christian, described by prosecutors as "the leader of the pack", was found guilty of five rapes of girls as young as 11, and acquitted of four indecent assaults and one rape.

His son Randy, chairman of the internal works committee, was found guilty of four rapes, including one gang rape of a 10-year-old, and five indecent assaults. He was found not guilty of three indecent assaults and one rape.

Steve's brother-in-law Dave "The Mouth" Brown was found guilty of six indecent assaults against girls as young as 12, and acquitted of six counts of indecent assault and gross indecency.

On the way into court, Brown waved toilet paper in the air and laughed aloud with co-accused Jay Warren and Randy Christian, who were shielding their faces from the media with a gaudy umbrella.

Dave's father Len Brown was found guilty of twice raping a girl as young as 15, and Terry Young, 46, guilty of one rape and six indecent assaults against girls as young as seven."

eating ( a lot are very overweight) drinking (what else to do...) and then screwing what you can grab, that´s the sad fact of living in a very remote environment if there is not much to do or possibilities are very limited.