Pitcairn Island access soars with new shipping schedule through to April 2025

MV Silver Supporter

Pitcairn Islands Tourism has today announced the most significant increase ever in passenger services to Pitcairn Island with an extension of the shipping schedule to April 2025.

From April 2024, Pitcairn's supply ship, MV Silver Supporter, will operate 29 return passenger services between Mangareva, French Polynesia and Pitcairn Island through to April 2025. Representing an increase of more than 25% over the previous year.

Voyages are timed to directly connect with the weekly Tuesday, Air Tahiti, flight from French Polynesia’s gateway island Tahiti and Mangareva.

Pitcairn Islands Tourism Travel Coordinator, Heather Menzies, says “Even though we are one of the most remote tourism destinations on earth, we have experienced unprecedented growth in demand since reopening our border to visitors in March 2022. This improved access will ensure more visitors are able to experience legendary Pitcairn Island.”

Embarking on an epic sea voyage, surrounded by one of the world’s largest marine reserves whilst enveloped by the “Mata ki te Rangi - Eyes To The Sky” International Dark Sky Sanctuary, Pitcairn offers insight to a fascinating living history which creates one of the most distinctive travel experiences available for intrepid international travellers.

For more information on 2024-25 shipping schedules to Pitcairn Island please visit https://www.visitpitcairn.pn/shipping-schedule

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, the majority 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

* Pitcairn Islands Tourism AU NZ Rep, pitcairn@tropicsmarketing.com.au