Driving around on Pitcairn Island

[EyePodX]

I know the inhabitants speak English, and I've heard they also have their own language as well. But what do they sound like? Like what accent do they mostly represent? Just curious

[lolthtg]

there are 48 people living there... i wonder how life there is

[KayChasm]

@lolthtg very very very....relaxing i would imagine...

[DeathmentalPvP]

how do you live there

[19garfield62]

@DeathmentalPvP I don’t live there, I was just visiting.

But there is fruits all around the Island and people grow there own vegetables. Meat is being imported and every 3 months there’s a supply ship from Tahiti

[19garfield62]

Nope, because people marry off the Island. Because for education after primary school they go abroad to New Zealand and Australia and meet their partner there so there is fresh blood coming in

[DBDMotorsports]

Haven't all the natives there been inbreeding for generations?

[ultrameka]

i was just reading for this island in wiki...it has only 50 people there!how are they hanging out...

[MrBooty2000]

Are you talking about St Kildan's? People managed to live there happily for 2 thousand years. It wasn't until outsiders came and tried to push their ideas of religion and education on the islanders that the way of life that allowed them to live there for so long was disrupted and then they had to leave. If they had been left alone, there would still be people there.

[goldroversix]

what type of accent do the islanders have ? originally it must have been ye olde english mixed with tahitian ! when you think that we in the uk have islands just off the coast of scotland that have been abandoned due to the harsh life they offer and in pitcairn people carry on an existance which is a poor quality way of life..id be all for the british goverment forcing them off the island and shutting the place down for ever or the islanders own good, in the long run it has to be a good thing

[666rebel420]

@goldroversix are you fucking stupid.... they do know and understand there is a world out there they choose to live there. i would love to move there. living on mainland sucks ass life on that island would be perfect.

[02welchd]

@666rebel420 go and do it then mate

[666rebel420]

@02welchd if i hade the money for a boat and house to move me n my family i into i would do it. there isnt much iron working going on there i would imagine, so my line of work would not fly lol

[afghi420]

@goldroversix you are a moron

[goldroversix]

@afghi420 are you the candidate for asshole of the year ? you have my vote ! 

[Treemeadow]

@goldroversix

You know, it sounds almost Welsh. I grew up there, first four years of my life. Came back sounding just like one them.

[krizla4]

Is it possible to just enter the island when I cruise along in my sailing boat?

[19garfield62]

@krizla4 Not a problem, you just have to resgister at the dock, pay a small fee and you can visit the Island

[fillosofert]

Are you allowed to grow weed on pitcairn?

[19garfield62]

@fillosofert Don't know, but I guess not, because is a British Overseas Territory governed from New-Zealand.

[MagnusRulerHardt]

@fillosofert

Who's gonna stop you?

[MrHarryABC]

@fillosofert they seem fine with child sex abuse, it's "island culture" apparently britain now have a ban on all children being brought onto the island because the dangers are so great they cant't chance it, not sure about weed though they used to be very strict on alcohol and dancing because their a "christian" island and have been since the original John Adams so maybe weed is not ok.

[renemill]

@fillosofert I made myself the same question...I don´t think Pitcairns is going to become the island of our dreams...So we´ll keep on searching for the promised land...good luck

[lcpbeto]

i read an excellent Pitcairn's travel review, its all an adventure fisrt to make arriving there, later staying in a house of the locals (no hotels) and only to do but contemplation of teh nature, self knowing and making true and very far away friends... , make me want to go sometime, there and Tistan da cunha, the most isolated place in the world... someday, someday

[ziutek998]

Can you build a house over there?

[19garfield62]

@ziutek998 You can, but only when you live on the island.

[sexydjole93]

Beutiful.

[Struwwelpepper]

I know the Pitcairns are a British overseas territory. I am a british citizen and I don't think I would need a visa to access the island but my girlfriend is from Italy and I don't think she would be needing one either as she is an EU citizen, right ? Did you require a visa to go there ? and who checks you in upon arrival ? I don't think there's a customs office on the Pitcairns, is there ?

[LoveMeLoveMyDog80]

@Struwwelpepper Everyone not a Pitcairn resident or appointed government official needs an entry permit, even a UK citizen (which seems unjust to me, but that's the rules). AFAIK, one of the police on the island (posted from NZ) perform the checks, or one of the Island Council. These days the place is actually quite rigidly policed. You need a separate permit for landing on the other islands, though I don't know how they are enforced.

[Struwwelpepper]

Hi 19garfield62, thanks for sharing your videos. It seems like I am not the only one who's infatuated with the Pitcairns. I don't why but I really want to go there some time, probably I never will for financial reasons.

[davis1000000]

What do the people look like? Do you have any footage of them talking?

[jonnycomehome]

Are the people there white (the descendants of the people from the Bounty)?

[elgauchoboliviano]

That documentacion I need to travel to the island, tourism can be done? there is algun hotel, lodging? can be done fishing , to go to the beach? and as much as the estadia in the island in dolares. I am from Argentina and in which, month I can travel? can i do camping ?

[pastadam]

Is there any education in Pitcairn Island? How the children study? Are there any schools? Thanks.

[19garfield62]

@pastadam Yes there is primary school untill about 14 and after that, they go to New Zealand for secundary school and University

[modelearth]

there was a rape scandal here? and they built a prison to hold them?

[19garfield62]

@modelearth On both questins the answer is yes

[modelearth]

@19garfield62 seems like an odd place to me? a bit sinister. how was the atmosphere? and what accents do they have?

[19garfield62]

@modelearth Not odd or sinister at all, it is simply beautiful. They speak Pitkern, wich is a mix of 18th century english and Polynesian from Tahiti

[cooldude5298]

a population of 50

[stoopid335]

this place has the lowest amount of population in the world 50 people

[pewepe1]

beutiful island

[Andy2x4]

Whats the weather like usually?

[19garfield62]

@757K Half way Peru and New-Zealand in the middle of the Pacific

[Heke1959]

@19garfield62 its not middle of Pacifi ocean .Pitcairn ir ~1900km from Rapanui/Estearn island, Eastern island is ~3700km from Chile!!

[19garfield62]

@Heke1959 Yes, so it is 5600 km from mainland South-America and another same distance to mainland Australia and New-Zealand. So for me makes it the middle of the Pacific.

Rapanui is just another small Isalnd. I have been there and beleive me, I would not count this as a great mass of land

[giorelee]

sound greats, but how long it should take to arrive the island, by boat only?

and where is the port of departure??

[19garfield62]

@giorelee It can only be reached by boat. It takes 2 to 3 days to get there starting on the Gambier Islands in French-Polynesia

[giorelee]

it is interesting island, i hope i can visit it once in my life...

how is it feel....19garfield62

[19garfield62]

@giorelee It is really beautiful and tranquil. I loved the week of holiday I spend it over there.

[KottLoom]

The driver in this video seems like dead. Slowest ride i have ever seen. I could travel faster by foot.

[19garfield62]

@KottLoom You would be dead if you go any faster and you could try doing it faster by foot, but I hope you have Mount Everest condition or you would not succeed.

[65danner]

@KottLoom go faster for what?? is a nice place to go fast and just look at the road is not good condition for speed

[Ilir7777]

If somebody punches the motibiker, that would lead to a national war.

[bozirob]

pitcairns very own autobahn now thats one experience

[Eivan10R]

only like 50 people live there. i will become the 51 :D

[MrWhatever45]

@Eivan10R well actually 52 if the women are nice mind you i expect they been shared around abit : /

[DeathHound96]

is the currency pounds also?

[19garfield62]

Nope, it is New Zealand dollars

[GreazyMuhfoh]

Seems like there is only grown men and old women that live on this island. Are there any young females that live there. I can only imagine that the men are a bit off because of the lack of women.

[19garfield62]

There are men and women of every age on the island. From little children to old people

[GreazyMuhfoh]

No offense but from reading a bit about this place I can't help but feel a little uneasy about the inhabitants of this island.  I've heard stories of child molestation. The background story to this island is unsettling. Its odd to me that these people insist on living here. However, I don't want to judge what I dont know. Still there is something that just doesn't seem right to me.

[19garfield62]

I am not offended, but I think you see it in the wrong perspective. The island is the world in a pressure cooker. What happens here happens all over the world in every city and village. But because it happens in such an isolated, and famous, place it becomes world news. If it happens in a city or village near your own town it only becomes local news.

[Scottrchrdsn]

@19garfield62 Well put.

[accuruneide]

@19garfield62

yes, you're right, in Italy we say "all the world is a village" BUT, try to think abut what I say: if your sister, your mom, your daughter are molestated by a man in a normal city, they are able to go into a police station and say what happened. I think it is almost impossible to do the same there, maybe for the easy reason that the only one police man present on the island is the man that use violence on herself.

[19garfield62]

@accuruneide Well that is not the case. Because the policeman on the Island is from New-Zealand and they are stationed on the Island for a certain amount of time and than are changed for a new policeman from New-Zealand. Why New-Zealand? Because Pitcairn is governed by Great Britain trough a governor in New-Zealand.

[19garfield62]

@accuruneide The biggest problem in this case there was nowhere to run until you go to secondary school. This school and college are in Australia or New-Zealand. Next to that everybody knows everybody on the Island and so everybody is interdependent of each other. Much like in a small village on the countryside.

[19garfield62]

@accuruneide The biggest problem in this case there was nowhere to run until you go to secondary school. This school and college are in Australia or New-Zealand. Next to that everybody knows everybody on the Island and so everybody is interdependent of each other. Much like in a small village on the countryside.

[MrHarryABC]

@19garfield62 i think he meant previous to when britain where forced to station an outside police person there,it's only been like that for 11yrs.They also had to place 2 social workers who specialize in child sex abuse there also. But what's going to happen when they leave some day and the islanders are back to looking after themselves? Before Britain stepped in the women and kids had no-one to turn to as it was the Mayor himself and all the powerful guys on the island who where raping the kids

[TSMPimpDaddyPain]

@GreazyMuhfoh the background story is unsettling? It's one of the most famous "background" stories in European naval history.

[MrHarryABC]

@TSMPimpDaddyPain ah I think you've got the wrong "background" story mate!! The poster was talking about the pitcairn child rape and sexual abuse case from back in 2004-2006. This Island became famous for more than just the mutiny of the Bounty if you see what i mean. google "kathy marks pitcairn lost" video and take a look or look up the public records in New Zealand to read the whole trial background.

[MrHarryABC]

@TSMPimpDaddyPain The powerful mean on this island completely abused their power and the dependence of the women on them for survival to create a Droit du seigneur style culture on the island in an interview the women of the island defended this "culture" and said it was normal for young girls to be "broken in" by the older men of island. Unfortunately for the female children they had no say in the matter and where often held down or gagged while being raped, the meaning of "consent" was lost.

[TSMPimpDaddyPain]

@MrHarryABC and when has any person with power not abused it? Besides, only the people that live there really know the truth.

[MrHarryABC]

@TSMPimpDaddyPain Very true too much power corrupts. A lot of that truth came out during the trial from the victims. They where convicted and the british gov are finally paying attention after centuries of neglect. Infrastructure and other services are improving, little businesses are springing up aided by gov grants and the british have posted full time social workers, a doctor, policeperson and administrator all from off the island. These women and their children are finally getting help.

[lfceleven]

Come and join us at the Pitcairn Islands Study Group if you wish to learn more about this subject.

[19garfield62]

Hi lfceleven

Thanks for the invitation, but I do not think I need to learn more about this subject.

I am as educated as anyone who is interested about these Islands, for their whole lives, and actually been there

[goldyn12345]

thanks for posting these vids, how was your trip to pitcairns? are the people welcoming? i was thinking about going!!!

[19garfield62]

he people are very welcoming and very friendly. The trip was a long one because you have to fly trough Tahiti and take a plane from there to the Gambier Islands. And from these Islands you need to take a boat, which is an average trip of about two days one way

[goldyn12345]

thats a long time, i suppose it was worth it though!!!

[ju04rob]

in 1978 my ship stopped there because of an illness,brings back so many memories now watching these clips

[Reghedable]

I've always wanted to check out Pitcairn. Heard it's a pretty private place. :)

[Treemeadow]

did you get there by going through the Mission House (is it still the Mission House?)

I can only think of the spikey leaves of the

trees, and how we'd be so exited on the Four-Wheeler driving to go swimming!

[polacocba]

i hope someday i can visit that beautiful pacific island.what an interesting place!

bye bye

ALEXIS from ARGENTINA

[bexcpfc]

Wow, this is so amazing. How did you only spend a week there? How did you plan your trip??

Thanks.

[19garfield62]

Because the whole boat trip was only three weeks we did not have more time to stay, because we also went to Oeno and Henderson Island.

After a long search we found a company who organized trips to Pitcairn, for a reasonable, but still expensive price. But at least they offered the most value for money.

[TastingAshes]

@19garfield62 could you send me a message with that company's information please?

[TSMPimpDaddyPain]

@19garfield62 No Ducie Island?

[19garfield62]

@TSMPimpDaddyPain Nope, to our regret. But the boat we where on was in such a state a visit to Ducie would be to dangerous. So the Captain decided we would return to the Gambier Islands and we all agreed with him. We didn't want to be on the middle of the Pacific with all motors failing :-(

[codagent]

dude your so hardcore for living there :) I can only imagine what its like. Do any kids live on the island?

[19garfield62]

I dont live there I spend a week of holiday on the island in March of this year. And yes there are children living there. The youngest one was 4 months in March

[BKuchau]

Thanks for sharing this. It is always great to see Pitcairn and the Islanders.

[chase11281985]

hey is there any surf on pitcairn islands?