Pitcairn is one of Easter Island’s nearest inhabited neighbours, at the short distance of 1,180 miles (1,900km) to the west. Only around 50 people live on Pitcairn, in secluded wooden houses nestled into a steep, wooded cliff.

Many citizens are directly descended from the mutineers on the ill-fated HMS Bounty and their Polynesian consorts, who landed on Pitcairn after taking control of the ship in 1789. Travelling by boat remains the only way to get to Pitcairn, but don’t worry, mutiny is rare on the MV Silver Supporter, the chartered ship that connects the Pitcairnese to Mangareva in French Polynesia in around 32 hours.

The world's most remote inhabited islands