Pitcairn is a tiny South Pacific island just 1 mile wide and 2 miles long, but with a famous bit of history involving Tahitian women, Captain William Bligh, a ship named the Bounty, and a mutiny on ...

Pitcairn Island, one of King Charles III’s tiniest and most remote outposts, is marking the new monarch’s accession with a ceremony Sunday. Iona Thomas, recently appointed as governor of Pitcairn, ...

You’re living on what is arguably the world’s most remote and isolated inhabited place, the rocky South Pacific volcanic dot of land called Pitcairn Island. In the late 1700s it was the hide-away home ...

PITCAIRN, Pitcairn, Aug. 24 (UPI) -- Tom Christian, the descendant of Fletcher Christian, the leader of the Bounty mutineers, passed away on the British-owned Pitcairn Island. He was 77. Christian, ...

Pitcairn Island was first settled more than 200 years ago by Fletcher Christian and other mutinous crew members of the HMS Bounty, along with several Polynesian women from neighboring islands; the ...

The mayor and five other men on the small Pacific island of Pitcairn were sentenced to up to six years in prison for a string of rapes and sex attacks dating back 40 years on the remote and isolated ...

When the mutineers of the HMS Bounty landed on Pitcairn Island in 1790, they believed they had found the perfect refuge: a fertile Eden in a remote corner of the South Pacific where Capt. William ...

One thing above all others the British Navy was slow to forgive: mutiny. Though Pitcairn Island had become a British colony in 1893, British ships still shunned the faraway, surf-swept island where ...

Pitcairn Island postmaster Dennis Christian, a descendant of Bounty mutineer Fletcher Christian, has pleaded guilty to three charges during a trial into rape and underage sex stretching back 40 years, ...