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"You can visit without a visa for up to 14 days, while long-term visit visas are valid for up to 6 months. "

"How do people travel to/from Pitcairn? The Government of Pitcairn Islands charters a passenger/cargo vessel. This currently carries supplies and passengers to the island every three months."

How do you visit for only 14 days if there is no airport and the ship only comes every three months?

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If I recall correctly the supply ship goes a round trip between Pitcairn and Mangareva which means you can get off on Pitcairn and wait for it to come back from Mangareva. I went on a chartered yacht being operated by a Pitcairn based tourist venture. Choices then were to stay for 2 days or 11 days. I stayed for a month due to the charter yacht needing to leave and then return with a department of conservation employee to investigate a rat sighting on Henderson island.

There were many private yachts visiting the island while I was there, coming and staying for a few days then leaving.

Private yacht.

It'd have to be a big private yacht, as Pitcairn has no sheltered harbours.

For a small yacht, even in the lee of the island, it would be difficult to stay for long, and you'd have to be prepared to leave whenever the weather changed.

Many smaller one-person yachts visit the island, they anchor offshore and get transport to the island via the islanders coming out on the longboat. Yachties stay overnight on their yacht for safety reasons - there have been incidents of them breaking away from their anchor.

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