The population quickly grew and the island became a port of call for whalers and passenger ships travelling between the US and Australia. At its peak, Pitcairn was home to 233 people in 1937 ...

As of July 2014, only 48 people call the Pitcairn Islands and their stunning rocky cliffs home. Back in 1789, British sailors in the Pacific mutinied on the HMS Bounty and settled on Tahiti and ...

The coast of Chile lies 2,300 miles to the east, Tahiti 2,500 miles to the northwest, and the nearest island, with a total population of 54 people, is tiny Pitcairn island, 1,400 miles to the west.

If you’ve seen the 1962 film Mutiny on the Bounty, you will be familiar with the early residents of the Pitcairn Islands in the south Pacific. In 1789, a group of disillusioned crewmen on HMS ...

A documentary feature telling how then descendants of the crew of HMS Bounty survive today on the remote island of Pitcairn where their ancestors settled after the mutiny ...

The great brass bell across from the Assembly Hall on Pitcairn Island clanged gladly one sundown last fortnight. Through the dim light a ship had just been sighted, and the 200-odd hybrid ...

For those on the run or simply wishing to hide from it all, there is really no better place for you than Pitcairn Island. The island which is one of the world's most remote, is a British colony ...

The islands – which are in the middle of the South Pacific and home to only around 50 people – are one of ... first Royal Navy vessel to call at the Pitcairn Islands since HMS Montrose on ...

The population quickly grew and the island became a port of call for whalers and passenger ships travelling between the US and Australia. At its peak, Pitcairn was home to 233 people in 1937 ...

The most common cause of death on the island is old age. Probst has taken photos of headstones and calculated that most people on Pitcairn live to about 90 years. "Life here at the moment is ...