Get married - on Pitcairn Island.

[caziques]

http://www.stuff.co.nz/travel/international/513036...

It's one of the hardest places in the world to get to – and now it's trying to market itself as the ideal spot for a wedding.

Just wondered if anyone on PH has been to Pitcairn.

The most out of the way place I've been to is Norfolk Island - where a number of Pitcainers were rehomed when it became overcrowded.

Fascinating history - get googling.

[Amateurish]

I understood that there is no scheduled boat to get there - you either go on your own boat or you find a cargo / cruise ship passing in the general region. Then going home, just hope that a boat decides to stop. You could be there for months.

I read a very interesting book about a journalist who stayed there for a year or so - the place sounds really fked up. Child abuse was rife.

[caziques]

....14 years later...

Left New York on a cruise a couple of weeks ago...Colombia, Panama Canal, Peru, circled Easter Island and yesterday went round Pitcairn Island twice. Now on our way to Tahiti.

Never thought I'd get near the place.

Population 47, remotest inhabited island in the world.

The Pacific Ocean is big, will be back in NZ in a week's time.

Quite a few people on the boat started a round the world trip in New Zealand over three months ago.

[Suspicious_user]

caziques said:

....14 years later...

Love it, a) because you were nearby and b) because you remembered this thread.

[smifffymoto]

Just as impressive is an OP actually updating his own thread,even if it has taken 14 years.

[ChocolateFrog]

Is that the island where they had to build a prison especially to house the child abusers once someone decided that it probably wasn't ok just because it was in the back of beyond?

[irish boy]

I never head of this place till recently till I started filling a family on socials who moved there. The history is fascinating to research.

[ChocolateFrog]

Looks like it'll go the same way as St Kilda in another decade or two.

[daqinggregg]

ChocolateFrog said:

Is that the island where they had to build a prison especially to house the child abusers once someone decided that it probably wasn't ok just because it was in the back of beyond?

Much like when you see Aussie programmes, (outback car/opal/gold, hunters. A couple of blokes turn up in Pickleborough, population 26, 300K’s from the nearest town, to transport/buy/drill/sell/dig.

Bugger that, what the …. , do the locals do, all 26 of them, surely dating options are a trifle thin on the ground.

[Greenmantle]

Once went and viewed a house for sale that was called Pitcairn - it was at the end of a Cul-de-Sac.
That was 25 years ago. It got me interested in the remote islands of the world - Tristan de Cunha etc.
Would love to go and visit St Kilda.

[Matt Harper]

daqinggregg said:

Much like when you see Aussie programmes, (outback car/opal/gold, hunters. A couple of blokes turn up in Pickleborough, population 26, 300K s from the nearest town, to transport/buy/drill/sell/dig.

Bugger that, what the . , do the locals do, all 26 of them, surely dating options are a trifle thin on the ground.

I seem to recall that the Pitcairners had a bit of a kiddy-fiddling issue in the fairly recent past......

[Skodillac]

caziques said:

....14 years later...

Left New York on a cruise a couple of weeks ago...Colombia, Panama Canal, Peru, circled Easter Island and yesterday went round Pitcairn Island twice. Now on our way to Tahiti.

Never thought I'd get near the place.

Population 47, remotest inhabited island in the world.

The Pacific Ocean is big, will be back in NZ in a week's time.

Quite a few people on the boat started a round the world trip in New Zealand over three months ago.

Tristan da Cunha is more usually seen as the remotest inhabited island in the world, but still, Pitcairn is remote enough by any measure, and I'd feel like it was quite a shame to pass so close and not visit.

Enjoy Tahiti!