Reports

• The Marine Environment of the Pitcairn Islands

  • Aug 31, 2012, 09:40 EST
  • Global Ocean Legacy - Pitcairn

  This book compiles, for the first time, all of the previous scientific information about the Pitcairn Islands’ marine environment, from shoreline out to the edge of its 200-nautical mile exclusive economic zone. The report characterises and quantifies the key biological, geological and natural history features in these waters that are of regional or global importance.More

   

Other Resources

• Pitcairn The Real Bounty - Ministerial Statement

  • Nov 27, 2012, 14:15 EST
  • Global Ocean Legacy, Global Ocean Legacy - Pitcairn

  On November 28th, the Pew Environment Group, in collaboration with National Geographic and the Pitcairn Island Council, launched a call to the British government to name a highly protected marine reserve around the Pitcairn Islands, a UK overseas territory.More

   

• Infographic: A Pitcairn Marine Reserve

  • Nov 23, 2012, 09:45 EST
  • Global Ocean Legacy - Pitcairn

  Would encompass over 99% of Pitcairn's 200 nautical mile exclusive economic zone and allow low impact traditional sustenance fishing by Pitcairners.More

   

• Global Ocean Legacy Return to Pitcairn Island

  • Oct 17, 2012, 09:45 EST
  • Global Ocean Legacy - Pitcairn

  Following our first trip to Pitcairn Island in February March 2011, and our return visit in March April of this year with the National Geographic Pristine Seas expedition team, Global Ocean Legacy staff members Jay Nelson, Heather BradnerMore

   

• Pitcairn Islands Expedition: What We Found

  • Apr 10, 2012, 12:30 EST
  • Global Ocean Legacy, Global Ocean Legacy - Pitcairn

  National Geographic explorer-in-residence Enric Sala looks back at the science expedition to the Pitcairn Islands.More

   

• Map: Location of the Pitcairn Islands in the South Pacific

  • Oct 24, 2011, 14:50 EST
  • Global Ocean Legacy - Pitcairn

  View a map of the location of the Pitcairn Islands in the South Pacific.More

   

• Photo Gallery: Pitcairn Islands

  • Oct 10, 2011, 11:30 EST
  • Global Ocean Legacy, Global Ocean Legacy - Pitcairn

  The Pitcairn Islands in the southern Pacific Ocean may be small and remote, but their surrounding waters are massive and home to an incredibly diverse and healthy marine ecosystem. View photos of this spectacular area.More

   

• The Revival of Pitcairn Island Tapa Making

  • Jun 30, 2011, 13:55 EST
  • Global Ocean Legacy - Pitcairn

  In Pitcairn, the art of tapa making — an indigenous handicraft using the inner bark of the mulberry tree — has been dormant for the past 60 years.More

   

• Global Ocean Legacy Visits Pitcairn

  • May 01, 2011, 14:45 EST
  • Global Ocean Legacy - Pitcairn

  Heather Bradner and Elisabeth Whitebread, with the Pew Environment Group, write about their recent visit to Pitcairn.More

   

Image Galleries

• Pitcairn Islands Expedition

  • Nov 21, 2012, 09:45 EST
  • Global Ocean Legacy - Pitcairn

  In the last 3 weeks National Geographic visited the four islands and atolls in the Pitcairn Archipelago (Pitcairn, Ducie, Henderson, and Oeno). They conducted 384 individual dives, spending a total of over 450 person-hours underwater. They counted and measured underwater 40,210 fishes, 5000 sea urchins, 6300 coral coMore