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Pitcairn Islands
Photo: Adamstown — Makemake at de.wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Pitcairn Islands at a glance

Pitcairn Islands is a territory in Polynesia; its capital is Adamstown. People mainly speak English. The currency is the New Zealand Dollar (NZD). VoyaKin maps 5 places to see here, including 1 UNESCO World Heritage site.

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Capital
Adamstown
Region
Polynesia
Languages
English
Currency
New Zealand Dollar (NZD)
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Before you go: official information

Entry rules, visas and health requirements change. Confirm them with Pitcairn Islands’s official immigration authority or its embassy before you book and again before you travel.

Check your own government’s travel advice before you go.

Places to see in Pitcairn Islands

Descriptions from Wikipedia and photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each card.

  • Henderson Island

    Henderson IslandUNESCO

    Island

    Henderson Island is an uninhabited island in the south Pacific Ocean. It is part of the Pitcairn Island Group, together with Pitcairn, Oeno, and Ducie Islands.

    Text: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Photo: Makemake at German Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 3.0). Map

  • Pitcairn Island

    Pitcairn Island

    Island

    Pitcairn Island is the only inhabited island of the Pitcairn Islands, in the southern Pacific Ocean, of which many of the 40 inhabitants are descendants of mutineers of HMS Bounty.

    Text: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Photo: NASA (Public domain). Map

  • Oeno Island

    Oeno Island

    Island

    Oeno Island or Holiday Island is an uninhabited coral atoll in the South Pacific Ocean, part of the Pitcairn Islands overseas territory. It is part of the Pitcairn Island Group, together with Pitcairn, Henderson and Ducie islands.

    Text: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Photo: NASA (Public domain). Map

  • Bounty Bay

    Bounty Bay

    Beach

    Bounty Bay is an embayment of the Pacific Ocean into Pitcairn Island. It is named after the Bounty, a British naval vessel whose eighteenth-century mutiny was immortalized in the novel Mutiny on the Bounty, and the numerous subsequent motion pictures made of it.

    Text: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Photo: Makemake at German Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 3.0). Map

  • Pawala Valley Ridge

    Pawala Valley Ridge

    Mountain

    Pawala Valley Ridge, is the highest point of the Pitcairn Islands, a British overseas territory in the southern Pacific Ocean, with an elevation of 347 metres (1,138 ft).

    Text: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Photo: NASA (Public domain). Map

Keep exploring

Also in Polynesia: American Samoa · Cook Islands · French Polynesia · Niue · Samoa · Tokelau · Tonga · Tuvalu

Last updated November 12, 2026. Sources: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), Wikimedia Commons, OpenStreetMap (ODbL). Partner offers below are separate from this guide and never change what’s written here.

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