Pitcairn Islands
* Bounty Bay
* Down Rope
* Ms. T
Sent by Pitcairn Islands Philately (PIP). This is our second arrangement with PIP. We'll be doing another order with them in early June. If you can offer us something that we cannot resist, please contact us, and a postcard sent postmarked from Pitcairn Islands is yours.
Pitcairn Islands
Adamstown from Palva Valley Ridge with Ship Landing Point prominent in the far centre.
Sent and arranged by my friend in Auckland, New Zealand.
Adamstown is the only settlement on, and as such, the capital of, the Pitcairn Islands.
Adamstown has a population of 48, which is the entire population of the Pitcairn Islands: all the other islands in the group are uninhabited. Adamstown is where most residents eat and sleep, while they grow food in other areas of the island.
The hamlet currently holds the record for being the smallest capital in the world. It has access to television, satellite internet, and a telephone. The main means of communication is still the ham radio. According to Google maps, the only named road in the capital is called "The Hill of Difficulty". (Source)
Mapcard of Pitcairn Islands.
Sent and arranged by my friend in Auckland, New Zealand.
Pitcairn Islands
Sent and arranged by my friend in Auckland, New Zealand.
The Pitcairn Islands (//; Pitkern: Pitkern Ailen), officially named the Pitcairn Group of Islands, are a group of four volcanic islands in the southern Pacific Ocean that form the last British Overseas Territory in the Pacific. The four islands – Pitcairn, Henderson, Ducie, and Oeno – are spread over several hundred miles of ocean and have a total land area of about 47 square kilometres (18 sq mi). Only Pitcairn, the second largest island measuring about 3.6 kilometres (2.2 mi) from east to west, is inhabited.
The islands are inhabited by the descendants of the Bounty mutineers and the Tahitians (or Polynesians) who accompanied them, an event retold in numerous books and films. This history is still apparent in the surnames of many of the islanders. With only about 56 inhabitants, originating from four main families, Pitcairn is the least populous national jurisdiction in the world. The United Nations Committee on Decolonization includes the Pitcairn Islands on the United Nations list of Non-Self-Governing Territories. (read further)
