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- 19 févr. 2020
- ☀️ 79 °F
- Altitude: Niveau de la mer
- Îles PitcairnKundur marqaWestern Harbour25°3’13” S 130°7’39” W
Pitcairn Island, UK
19 février 2020, Îles Pitcairn ⋅ ☀️ 79 °F
We got extra hour in a day for the last 4 days. Because of that we wake up very early. So today I got up at 5:30 AM after being awake since 3:00 AM. I went for a walk around the ship for 2 mi and at 6:30 AM we had breakfast.
Right after breakfast we were getting closer to Pitcairn Island.
The Pitcairn Islands are a group of four volcanic islands in the southern Pacific Ocean. Pitcairn Island is the only one that has people. The population is less then 70.
The earliest known settlers of the Pitcairn Islands were Polynesians. They traded goods and formed social ties between them. Eventually, important natural resources were exhausted, inter-island trade broke down, causing the small human populations on Henderson and Pitcairn to be cut off and eventually become extinct.
Pitcairn Island was discovered in 1767 by the British crew. The island was named after midshipman Robert Pitcairn, a fifteen-year-old crew member who was the first to sight the island.
In 1790, nine of the crew from the ship Bounty, along with the native Tahitian men and women who were with them settled on Pitcairn Island and set fire to the Bounty. Alcoholism, murder, disease and other ills took the lives of most these people.
And up to the resent time there still cases of crime.
The fertile soil of the island let them grow variety of fruit and vegetables. Also, British government sponsored production of the honey.
Pitcairn exports honey to New Zealand and to the United Kingdom. In London, Fortnum & Mason sells it and it is a favourite of Queen Elizabeth and Prince Charles.
We were sailing around the Island for at least 3 hours. During this time, I think half of the island population came onboard to sell their art and craft. They also brought honey. Very pricey, but that was the only opportunity to get something from this land. And it is favourite 😍 of the Queen!
People were buying t-shirts, handmade jewelry, wood carvings.
After that, the little boat was loaded with the food from our ship, including ice cream and the natives and they left the ship. We continue sailing toward Tahiti.
The weather is absolutely magnificent. Sunny, warm and very calm. We enjoyed all day being outside.
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Two to Travel Does your itinerary take you to Asia? If so, any announced changed to the itinerary? Both Viking and Oceania are skipping their Asian segments. Oceania 2020 now goes in the opposite direction ... similar to what we did in the first part of 2017. Oceania canceled all of its Asian cruises through June 2020.
Sonia Gelman Yes, we are going to Indonesia, Sri Lanka and Singapore. So far they did not say anything. I think we will hear something soon.
Two to Travel I think segments up to that point are OK ... unless Singapore shuts down, which is a possibility.