Adamstown is the capital and only settlement of the Pitcairn Islands, the only British Overseas Territory that is located in the southern Pacific Ocean.

It has access to television, satellite Internet, and a telephone; however, the main means of communication remains ham radio.

Pitcairn was settled again in 1790 by a group of British mutineers on HMS Bounty and Tahitians.

The hamlet features a wet, very warm climate averaging 1,543 mm (60.74 in) of rain a year.

The Present Committee on Geographic Names stated that Auckland, New Zealand is the administrative centre for these islands because the Governor of Pitcairn, the British High Commissioner to New Zealand, is based in Auckland.