The island is part of the larger Pitcairn Islands, which includes the uninhabited Henderson, Ducie, and Oeno Islands. They form the UK’s sole overseas territory in the Pacific Ocean.

You’re living on what is arguably the world’s most remote and isolated inhabited place, the rocky South Pacific volcanic dot of land called Pitcairn Island. In the late 1700s it was the hide ...

Herb Ford, at the Pitcairn Islands Study Center which houses an extensive collection of books on the HMS Bounty, on the campus of Pacific Union College on Wednesday Dec. 18, 2013, in Angwin, Ca.

Hidden deep in the vast expanse of the Pacific Ocean, the Pitcairn Islands form one of the most remote and unique communities on Earth. This tiny British Overseas Territory consists of four ...

Made famous by the mutiny on the HMS Bounty, Pitcairn Island is the most remote inhabited island in the world. A Sunnyvale retiree recently went there.

Getting there: with no airstrip, the easiest way to visit Pitcairn is on the Aranui or a handful of other cruise ships that make occasional visits, or via the island’s supply ship, the Silver ...