eleven other native women and six native men. On Pitcairn Island, a tiny, wooded, steep, craggy scrap of land in the South Pacific, they beached and burned the Bounty, hoped they were safe from ...

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.

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 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 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 ...

This is Emily, one of 8 children on the island. Pitcairn's youngest person is 3-years-old. Next year two teens will head to New Zealand for high school. Sue O' Keefe and native Pirate Pawl say ...