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Pitcairn Islands Tourism is pleased to announce the launch of our all new Virtual Tour.
We’ve been keeping busy during the recent challenges associated with the COVID-19 pandemic. The apiaries continue to produce our amazingly pure Pitcairn honey, the community has been focusing on planning and building projects and the Pitcairn Islands Artisan Gallery is working on moving it’s store online (stay tuned for the online Grand Opening shortly!).
The big news of the day, however, is that Pitcairn Islands Tourism has created a virtual tour of the island on our website for travelers to get a taste of Pitcairn whilst local and international travel restrictions remain in place.During your virtual tour you can visit our public square, go underwater in our marine reserve, have an afternoon swim at Bounty Bay, check out a local homestay, hike up to Christian’s Cave, and stargaze in our international dark sky sanctuary: Mata ki te Rangi, meaning “Eyes To The Skies”.
But don’t take our word for it. Check-out Pitcairn’s new Virtual Tours here:
Image: Pitcairn Virtual Tour Banner link
Image: Pitcairn Island 360 view from 500 m
ABOUT THE PITCAIRN ISLANDS
The Pitcairn Islands are a group of four islands in the southern Pacific Ocean that comprise the last remaining British Overseas Territory in the Pacific. Only Pitcairn Island, the second largest, is inhabited. Located halfway between New Zealand and Peru, with a lush and fertile climate, Pitcairn has a colourful history. In 1789 Fletcher Christian led a mutiny on the English vessel, HMAV Bounty and, several months later, together with 8 fellow mutineers and 19 Polynesians, sailed the ship to Pitcairn Island, one of the most remote and isolated islands in the world. By 1808, when the tiny colony was rediscovered, all but one of the mutineers and all the Polynesian men had died. The surviving mutineer, John Adams, eleven Polynesian women and twenty-five children remained. Today, almost all of the 50 or so inhabitants of Pitcairn are direct descendants of the Bounty mutineers and their Polynesian consorts. For more information visit: www.visitpitcairn.pn
Issued by Tropics Tourism & Marketing Services on behalf of Pitcairn Islands Tourism. 03 June 2020
MEDIA CONTACT:
Richard Hankin
Australia & New Zealand Marketing Representative for Pitcairn Islands Tourism
Mobile: +61 (0) 409 512 944
E-mail: pitcairn@tropicsmarketing.com.au
