61. Scotsman.com News - Pitcairn Sex Abuse Trial - Four Pitcairn Men Guilty Of Rape often did not report the abuse because of the community’s culture of silence . The pitcairn islands are a group of five rocky volcanic outcroppings, http://news.scotsman.com/topics.cfm?tid=1151&id=1254602004

62. Pitcairn Islands - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia The original settlers of the pitcairn islands were Polynesians who pitcairnculture, like its language, is a mix of English and Tahitian cultures. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pitcairn_Islands

Pitcairn Islands From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Pitcairn Islands In Detail In Detail National motto : Unknown Official languages English and Pitkern Capital Adamstown Governor ... Jay Warren (elected on December 15 Area km² Negligible Population Density 1/km² Dependent area of United Kingdom Currency New Zealand dollar Time zone ... .pn For other places named Pitcairn, see Pitcairn (disambiguation) The Pitcairn Islands are a group of five islands, of which only Pitcairn Island - the largest - is inhabited, in the southern Pacific Ocean , the only remaining British colony in the Pacific. The islands are best known for being the home of the descendants of the Bounty mutineers and the Tahitians who accompanied them, an event retold in numerous books and films. This history is still apparent in the surnames of many of the islanders. With only about 50 inhabitants (from 9 families), Pitcairn is also famed for being the least populated country in the world (although it is not a sovereign nation ). The United Nations Committee on Decolonization includes the Pitcairn Islands on the United Nations list of Non-Self-Governing Territories Contents History and current events Politics Geography Economy ... edit History and current events Main article: History of the Pitcairn Islands The original settlers of the Pitcairn Islands were Polynesians who appear to have lived on Pitcairn and Henderson for several centuries. However, although archaeologists believe that Polynesians were living on Pitcairn as late as the

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64. The Bounty, Pitcairn Island, And Fletcher Christian's Descendants Landing on pitcairn Island in 1790, the mutineers and Tahitians remained society s opportunity to invent itself from scratch, island culture more http://www.infoplease.com/spot/pitcairn.html

in All Infoplease Almanacs Biographies Dictionary Encyclopedia Daily Almanac for Sep 25, 2005 Skip Navigation Home Almanacs ... Word of the Day Editor's Favorites Hispanic Heritage Month Hurricane Katrina Daylight Saving Time Ramadan ... Texas Infoplease Tools Periodic Table Conversion Tool Perpetual Calendar Year by Year ... Site Map College Center Scholarship Search College Resources Career Center Job Search Post Your Resume Continuing Ed. more . . . Search: Infoplease Info search tips Search: Biographies Bio search tips The Bounty, Pitcairn Island, and Fletcher Christian's Descendants April 28 marks the anniversary of the world's most famous mutiny by Borgna Brunner HMS Bounty It is not surprising that the most famous of all mutinies , that of the British HMS Bounty , has become ideal fodder for popular history and legend. The mutiny has generated five films (who can think of Fletcher Christian without picturing Marlon Brando ?) as well as countless books (including a historical novel by Mark Twain The Great Revolution in Pitcairn Set in the paradisiacal islands of the South Seas, the mutiny involved a host of colorful characters, including the tyrannical Captain Bligh , the aristocratic Fletcher Christian (a distant relation of William Wordsworth's ), numerous uninhibited Tahitian women, and a pack of sailors made up of cockney orphans and ruffian adverturers.

65. Culture brought the rich culture of Tahiti with them, much of that has died out onPitcairn. Pacific Island Travel, Thé Specialist for travel to Pacific http://www.pacificislandtravel.com/pitcairn/about_destin/culture.asp

About us Send me a Brochure Tripbuilder (Shopping Cart) Send me a Quotation ... Pacific News member of Pitcairn Culture While the Polynesians who arrived presumably brought the rich culture of Tahiti with them, much of that has died out on Pitcairn. Weaving palm baskets is one skill that has been maintained, and many of the Pitcairn men carve intricate animals and replicas of the Bounty out of local timber. The language is English, but among themselves Pitcairners speak a slightly slurred version full of local idiom, words and place names that make it almost impossible for outsiders to understand. It includes many Tahitian and 18th century English seafaring words (if they drink too much, all hands (ie everyone) are likely to capsize (fall over), for example). Pitcairners embraced the Seventh Day Adventist Church late last century, which was responsible for the children's education until 1948, when a teacher was finally sent from New Zealand. Alcohol is banned (that ban seems to be slipping) and the islanders are not allowed to eat pork or fish without scales, which means the plentiful crayfish in island waters are used only as bait. Land is held under a system devised by Fletcher Christian and is based on family ownership.

66. Pitcairn Official web sites of pitcairn, the capital of pitcairn, art, culture, history,cities, airlines, embassies, Arts culture pitcairn Island museum http://www.nationsonline.org/oneworld/pitcairn.htm

Advertise here One World - Nations Online the countries of the world Home Continents Australia/Oceania Pitcairn keywords: Pitcairn information, Pitcairn facts, Pitcairn geography, Pitcairn news papers, travel Pitcairn, tourist information for Pitcairn, Pitcairn map Official Sites Map News Culture ... Additional Links Pitcairn Sovereignty: United Kingdom Country Profile Flag of Pitcairn Background: Pitcairn is a group of five islands in the southern Pacific Ocean, of which one is inhabited, it's the last remaining British colony in the Pacific. It's supposed that Polynesians lived on Pitcairn, but when Spanish explorers in the 15th century discovered the island it was uninhabited. In 1790 Pitcairn was settled by the Bounty mutineers and their Tahitian companions. Nearly 50 years later it became the first British Pacific island colony in 1838. related countries: Australia New Zealand United Kingdom Official Name: Pitcairn, Henderson, Ducie, and Oeno Islands short form: Pitcairn Islands ISO Country Code pn Time: Local Time = UTC Actual Time: Sat-Sept-24 20:43 Capital City: Adamstown Government: Overseas territory of the UK Chief of state: Queen ELIZABETH II Constitution: 1838; reformed 1904 with additional reforms in 1940; further refined by the Local Government Ordinance of 1964.

67. Welcome To Pitcairn Island As a result, the culture, customs and language of pitcairn island are a uniqueblend of Europe and Polynesia. The early settlement of pitcairn island is one http://members.aol.com/ldsebastia/pitcairn/

WELCOME TO PITCAIRN ISLAND Welcome to Pitcairn Island, home of the descendents of several of the mutineers from the British ship HMS Bounty. Pitcairn Island, which is located in the South Pacific about 2170 km from Tahiti, is one of the most isolated places on earth. It is also one of the most fascinating, due to its heritage as home to the children of mutineers who settled on the island to avoid capture. The Pitcairn Island Mystique The Early Settlement of Pitcairn Island On April 28, 1789, Fletcher Christian, Master's Mate of the British ship HMS Bounty, led a revolt against the Bounty's acting captain, Lieutenant William Bligh. The Bounty was returning from a mission to collect breadfruit plants from Tahiti, for use as a potential food source on New World plantations. Various reasons for the mutiny have been cited and discussed, among them the legendary tyranny of "Captain" Bligh, and the desire of some crew members to return to Tahiti. For some of the crew, particularly the able seamen, Tahiti seemed a paradise, where the men were treated like nobility in the midst of plenty. Other factors include the cramped conditions on the Bounty once the breadfruit plants were stowed, and the absence of Royal Marines to guard the arms chest and quell any rebellions. During the mutiny, Bligh and 18 other crew members were set adrift in an open boat, with one week's provisions and a few simple navigation instruments. Remarkably, Bligh sailed the small, crowded boat through 3,500 miles of open sea to the Dutch colony of Timor in the East Indies. Twelve of the original 19 men that the mutineers cast adrift survived the ordeal and ultimately arrived safely in England.

68. Lareau Web Parlour: Pitcairn, Bounty, Worldbuilding, Genealogy, Minnesota, Rolep Home of the Mutiny on the Bounty, the pitcairn Island Web Site, This web sitewill tell you of pitcairn Island itself, and the history, culture, http://www.lareau.org/

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69. Gigablast Search Results Regional Oceania Society and culture (34) No Mutiny as Voyaging CanoeReaches Storied pitcairn Island Honolulu StarBulletin article on the journey of http://dir.gigablast.com/Regional/Oceania/Pitcairn_Islands/Society_and_Culture/

Family filter: On Off Entire Directory Entire Category Pages in Base Category Sites in Base Category Top Regional Oceania History ... Independence Related Categories: Regional: Oceania: Society and Culture Locate information about the ancestors, descendants, and cousins of the Bounty crewmembers, with downloadable files and lists of the approximately 7,500 known Bounty descendants. www.lareau.org/genweb.html [archived copy] [stripped] [older copies] - indexed: Apr 26 2005 - modified: Jan 12 2003 Pitcairn Islands Study Center A museum-research facility at Pacific Union College in the USA containing the largest North American collection of materials on Pitcairn and the Mutiny on the Bounty. Category: Reference: Libraries: Special Collections library.puc.edu/pitcairn/ [archived copy] [stripped] [older copies] - indexed: Apr 26 2005 No Mutiny as Voyaging Canoe Reaches Storied Pitcairn Island Honolulu Star-Bulletin article on the journey of the polynesian voyaging canoe Hokule`a to Pitcairn Island. www.starbulletin.com/1999/08/26/news/story8.html [archived copy] [stripped] [older copies] - indexed: Apr 26 2005 Trying to Stay Afloat Salon magazine article on the current economic and political state of the Pitcairn Island group.

70. Pitcairn Island Suffering from culture shock and decimated by diseases to which they had no The story of the early years of pitcairn Island is told in Life Death in http://www.utopia-britannica.org.uk/pages/Pitcairn.htm

Utopia Britannica - British Utopian Experiments 1325 - 1945 Mutiny in Utopia Gazetter entry On 17th Sept 1814 two British Navy vessels called at the remote South Pacific Pitcairn Islands. They found a small community of 10 Polynesian women, 23 children and former able seaman, John Adams, who was the last surviving member of the mutineers of the Bounty who had settled the island with their Tahitian companions in 1790. Perhaps the best-known mutiny in British Naval history - HMS Bounty under the command of Capt. William Bligh was on a voyage to transport breadfruit trees from Tahiti to the West Indies to provide cheap food for the slave plantations. Following their stay on the idyllic South Pacific Island, ship's officer Fletcher Christian led the mutiny, setting Bligh and 18 crew members adrift in an open boat to make their epic journey, immortalised in Hollywood movies. The mutineers first returned to Tahiti, but following trouble among the islanders and fearing capture nine mutineers, six Tahitian men, twelve women and a baby set sail looking for a safe haven. After two months sailing around the Cooks, Tonga, and the eastern islands of Fiji looking for a home, Fletcher Christian remembered the existence of Pitcairn Island. 'Such a society, so free, not only from vice, but even from those petty bickerings and jealousies - those minor infirmities which we are accustomed to suppose are ingrained in human nature - can probably not be paralleled elsewhere. It is the realisation of Arcadia, or what we had been accustomed to suppose had existence only in poetic imagination, - the golden age; all living as one family, a commonwealth of brothers and sisters, which, indeed, by ties of relationship they actually are . . . there is neither wealth nor want, a primitive simplicity of life and manner, perfect equality in rank and station, and perfect content.'

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72. Norfolk Island Norfolk Island is rich in History and culture from Captain Cook s discovery in1774 to 1790 23 Jan, HMS Bounty burned in Bounty Bay, pitcairn Island http://www.norfolkisland.com.au/HistoryAndCulture/timeline.cfm

Time Line Norfolk Island is rich in History and Culture from Captain Cook's discovery in 1774 to todays modern times. 3,000,000 years ago Norfolk Island formed from lava erupting from unknown event. The island has been reduced to about 1/3 of its original size by erosion and weathering since then. Between A.D. 1000-1400 In this period, at lease one Eastern Polynesian group arrived on Norfolk Island, probably from the Cook or Society Islands or North Island of New Zealand. Between A.D. 1400-1774 Possibly another Polynesian group arrived, most likely from the South Island of New Zealand. Bananas were established in the present-day Kingston area by one of the first or second groups. Portuguese Cristovao de Mendonca probably first European to sight Australia. Succession of Dutch, Portuguese and English sailors including Jantz, Hartog, Carstenz, Tasman and Dampier visit parts of Australia. 1728, Oct 27

73. Norfolk Island Indulge in fresh island food and wine and experience a vibrant culture and the landing of the pitcairn Islanders to Norfolk Island on June 8th, 1856. http://www.norfolkisland.com.au/

Hot deals Check out all the latest deals to Norfolk Island, click here to see the deals on offer. Jazz Legends to Rock Norfolk Island Jazz legends Don Burrows and James Morrison will ‘sax up' Norfolk Island together this December when they star in the biggest-ever Jazz in the Pines Festival. The veteran virtuosos and their saxophones will offer a smorgasbord of jazz on the tiny island during the December 5-9 festival. Highlights will include two concerts featuring all the jazz bands as well as Burrows and Morrison together on stage under a giant marquee amongst the island's trademark pines. Click here for details In 2006, Norfolk Island will celebrate it's SESQUICENTENARY YEAR , which commerates 150 years since the landing of the Pitcairn Islanders to Norfolk Island on June 8th, 1856. This day is Anniversary Day (also known as Bounty Day) 2006 will be a great year of celebration,with Norfolk Island hosting bigger and better festivals and events throughout the whole year. Click here to view the 2006 Sesquicentenary Calendar of events QUEEN'S BATON RELAY XVIII COMMONWEALTH GAMES The Queen's Baton Relay is one of the greatest traditions of the Commonwealth Games. It symbolises the gathering of people from across the Commonwealth at the four-yearly festival of sport and culture. The Melbourne 2006 Queen's Baton Relay is the world's longest relay: traveling across the globe for one year and one day.

74. Pitcairn Islands Articles And Links pitcairn Island was settled in 1790 by mutineers from the HMS Bounty as well as The pitcairn islands also include Henderson Island, Ducie and Oeno islands. http://gohawaii.about.com/od/pitcairnislands/

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75. Pacific Internet Resources and culture to those who wish to learn more about the island and its people . Guide to pitcairn Island, history, information on the Study Center, http://www.nla.gov.au/oz/pacsites.html

@import url(/stylesheets/nlaweb-tertiary.css); SEARCH: HOME CATALOGUE GUIDES ASK US ... REGISTER FIND FOR HELP ABOUT US VISIT US SHOP Guides Home Guides Pacific Internet Resources Reference Material Current Events News Sources Pacific Law Sites ... Collecting Institutions There are other National Library guides to the Pacific Ocean Region such as Find Pacific Materials , our general guide to locating Pacific-related materials in the National Library and elsewhere, as well as a guide to Pacific Island government resources on the Internet . The Library's catalogue can be searched to locate other materials on the Pacific Island Region. Select Browse Subjects and use terms such as Pacific, Pacific Islands, or the names of specific islands or regions. Reference Material Banaban Web Site The forgotten people of the Pacific by Stacey King - Founder and Secretary of The Banaban Heritage Society. A non-profit organisation dedicated to the preservation of Banaban culture and bettering the lives of the Banaban people. Bikini Atoll Web Site Includes facts on Bikini Atoll, history, reparations for damages, radiological cleanup/future, the resettlement program and dive/tourism information.

76. 1Up Travel > Pitcairn Islands > Travel & Tourism | Tourist Guide To Pitcairn Isl pitcairn islands Seek all information related to general facts and a country guide on Click here right now to access all important info on pitcairn islands. http://www.1uptravel.com/international/oceaniapacific/pitcairn-islands/

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77. Flag Of Pitcairn Islands | Pitcairn Islands Flag. weather, country facts, and geography of pitcairn islands .The Flag of pitcairnislands can be explored and discovered here at 1Up Travel. http://www.1uptravel.com/flags/largeflags/pitcairn-islands.html

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78. Key Facts About The United Kingdom : Directgov - Guide To Government They range from the tiny island of pitcairn with its 47 inhabitants, set in themiddle of the Pacific Department for culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) http://www.direct.gov.uk/Gtgl1/GuideToGovernment/AboutBritain/AboutBritainArticl

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80. Pitcairn News - News And Information About Pitcairn Island But for the determined and adventurous, pitcairn Island is one of the world s student who has had a lifelong interest in British history and culture. http://www.pitcairnnews.co.nz/

Pitcairn News News and Information about Pitcairn Island Want to help Pitcairn? Darralyn Griffiths Appeal Boat Shed Appeal Home About Me ... Pitcairn Islands Study Center To visit the website of the 2005 Bounty-Pitcairn Conference click the logo above. Web www.pitcairnnews.co.nz This site contains links to various news items and information about Pitcairn Island. The maintainer of this site is Chris Double Wednesday, 14th September, 2005 Wednesday, September 14, 2005 Tiny Island creates big interest The five family members that recently visited from Pitcairn Island were overwhelmingly well received, by our island community. They were Tom and Betty Christian, their daughter and son-in-law, Rob and Jacque Thomas and Betty's sister Marie. Sunday, 11th September, 2005 Sunday, September 11, 2005 Barkcloth made by Fletcher Christian's Widow . Link from Friends Of Pitcairn The people of the Society Islands, in common with most other Polynesian islanders, made a form of felted cloth known as barkcloth (tapa) by beating out the inner bark of a tree - mostly that of the paper mulberry. The cloth was used for garments and bedding. This barkcloth is said to have been made by Mauatua, the daughter of a Society Islands chief and the partner of Fletcher Christian, the leader of the mutiny on HMS Bounty in 1789.

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