Adamstown Destination Guide
Delve into Adamstown in Pitcairn!
Adamstown in the region of Pitcairn (general) with it's 46 residents is located in Pitcairn and is the capital of this country.
Current time in Adamstown is now 01:19 PM (Tuesday). The local timezone is named "Pacific / Pitcairn" with an UTC offset of -8 hours. Depending on your travel modalities, these larger destinations might be interesting for you: . While being here, make sure to check out Adamstown and Kundur marqa as well. We discovered some videos in the web. Scroll down to see the most favourite one or select the video collection in the navigation.
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Mrs T Pitcairn Island Galapagos Tortois...
Mrs T, the Galapagos Tortoise that lives on Pitcairn Island, walking down the road
Riding in a Pitcairn Island Longboat
Heading out in the longboat to get items and people from a visiting yacht
John Adams memorial on Pitcairn Island
John Adams grave with his Tahitian wife and daughter on Pitcairn Island
Driving around on Pitcairn Island
Seeing all the different trees and foliage on Tedside
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Interesting facts about this location
HMS Bounty
HMS Bounty, also known as HM Armed Vessel Bounty, was a small merchant vessel purchased by the Royal Navy for a botanical mission. The ship was sent to the Pacific Ocean to acquire breadfruit plants and transport them to British possessions in the West Indies under the command of William Bligh. That mission was never completed, due to a mutiny led by the acting Master, Fletcher Christian. This was the famous Mutiny on the Bounty.
Located at -25.07, -130.1 (Lat. / Lng.), less than 0 mi away.
Pitcairn Islands
The Pitcairn Islands, officially named the Pitcairn, Henderson, Ducie and Oeno Islands, are a group of four volcanic islands in the southern Pacific Ocean that form a British Overseas Territory. 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 . Only Pitcairn, the second largest and measuring about 3.6 kilometres from east to west, is inhabited.
Located at -25.07, -130.1 (Lat. / Lng.), less than 0 mi away.
Bounty Bay
Bounty Bay is an embayment of the Pacific Ocean into Pitcairn Island. Bounty Bay is named after the Bounty, a British naval vessel whose 18th century mutiny was immortalized in the novel Mutiny on the Bounty, and the numerous subsequent motion pictures made of it. The mutineers sailed the Bounty to Pitcairn Island and destroyed her by fire in Bounty Bay. Current Pitcairn Islanders are largely lineal descendants of the mutineers, as exhibited by some of their surnames.
Located at -25.07, -130.1 (Lat. / Lng.), less than 0 mi away.
Little George Coc'nuts
Little George Coc'nuts is a valley on the southwestern end of Pitcairn Island. It got its name from a coconut grove which was once maintained there by George Young, son of Pitcairn settler and HMS Bounty mutineer Ned Young.
Located at -25.07, -130.1 (Lat. / Lng.), less than 1 mi away.
Geography of the Pitcairn Islands
The Pitcairn Islands consist of four islands: Pitcairn Island, Oeno Island, Henderson Island and Ducie Island: Pitcairn Islands as a group of islands Pitcairn Island (main island) Henderson Island Ducie Island Oeno Island Pitcairn Island is a volcanic high island. Henderson Island is an uplifted coral island. Ducie and Oeno are coral atolls. The only inhabited island, Pitcairn, has an area of 5 km and a population density of 10/km²; it is only accessible by boat through Bounty Bay.
Located at -25.07, -130.1 (Lat. / Lng.), less than 1 mi away.
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