Set Foot On The Most Remote Pacific Islands - 10 islands, 26 days

This expedition voyage makes landfall at some of the least-visited islands on the planet. 

The aim of this Remote Pacific Expedition is to land at each location and the itinerary has been designed to ensure greatest possible success, including two days contingency in case of bad weather.  In the vast and seldom traversed Pacific Ocean, this is a voyage for those travellers wanting true expedition travel aboard a small ship.

The 39-metre ship Braveheart is known for her Pacific expedition exploits and comes well-equipped for remote exploration including jet-propelled landing craft.  Berth space is limited on the 4 November 2013 departure as the ship carries just 12 passengers in 6 cabins.  The experienced Braveheart team is dedicated to getting you ashore and offers a unique ‘Payback Policy’ should no passengers be able to set foot on 3 islands or more.  This gives added security that this vessel and its crew are dedicated to landings wherever possible.

Departing from Papaeete, Tahiti in French Polynesia, and concluding in Apia, Western Samoa, the voyage follows an arc, visiting the following extremely isolated destinations:

• Flint Island (uninhabited coral atoll under Kiribati jurisdiction)
• Penhryn Island (most remote atoll of the Cook Islands group)
• Jarvis Island (half way between the Cook Islands and Hawaii – an unorganized unincorporated territory of the United States)
• Washington Island (coral atoll under Kiribati jurisdiction)
• Palmyra Atoll (unoccupied equatorial Northern Pacific atoll - unorganized incorporated territory of the US, directly South of Hawaii)
• Kingman Reef (largely submerged, uninhabited triangular shaped reef)
• Baker Island (uninhabited 2.1km ² atoll with little rainfall, constant wind and strong sunshine with low-lying sandy coral islands surrounded by low-fringing reef)
• Nikumaroro or Gardner Island (part of the Phoenix Islands, Kiribati. Occupied at various times, now uninhabited. Known for being one possible location where pilot Amelia Earhart may have crashed)
• Atafu Island (this is a group of 42 Coral islets within Tokelau)
• Swains Atoll (territory of the US, under administration from Western Samoa it is owned by the Jennings family and used as a copra plantation – a population of 37 Tokelauans harvest the islands coconuts)

Join the experienced team aboard Braveheart for an expedition like no other.  The location and logistics of this type of voyage means it is not offered regularly.  This may be your one chance to join such a voyage and visit islands that only a handful of hardy souls have ever set foot on.

Voyage dates from 04 November to 01 December 2013. 

Twin occupancy US$ 35 000, Single Occupancy US$ 55 000.