Figure 1.--Here we see the Pictcairn islanders in 1910. White clothes seem to have been very popular.
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Figure 1.--Here we see the Pictcairn islanders in 1910. White clothes seem to have been very popular. |
Pitcairn Island may be among the most isolated places on earth. Pitcairn is the Pacific island where in 1790 the HMS Bounty's mutineers landed. The mutiny on the bounty is one of the most famous episodes in the history of the British Royal Navy raising important questions about discipline aboard naval vessels. Fletcher Christian led the mutineers to this remote island. It was chosen of course because if its remotness and the Bounty ws sunk. Christian was a son of the Coroner of Cumberland and of Manx descent on his father's side. He is still remembered as the founder and first leader of the settlement. By 1800 John Adams was the only male survivor of the party that had landed just 10 years before.
The community was made up of ten Polynesian women and twenty-three children.
In 1808 the little colony was discovered by Captain Mayhew Folger, an American sealing captain, but his visit was brief. The HMS Briton and HMS Tagus rediscovered the settlement 6 years later on September 17, 1814. All the Pitcairn inhabitants joined Seventh Day Adventist Church (1887). Here we see Pictcairn inhabitants in 1910. Pictcairn today is one of te remanents of the British Empire still scatered around the world.
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