وفي أواخر السبعينات أصبحت معظم أراضي بيتكيرن، بفعل الهجرة أساسا، مملوكة لسكان غادروا الجزيرة.
Legislation adopted in the early 1980s is reported to aim at ensuring that every Pitcairn Islander is entitled to an allocation of house, garden, orchard and forestry land “sufficient to meet their needs”, for as long as they live on Pitcairn.