One of the remotest places on earth, Pitcairn Island was spotted on this day in 1767 by 15-year old midshipman Robert Pitcairn, serving on HMS Swallow.

Pitcairn Islands, located in the South Pacific Ocean, hold the title of the least populated country in the world, with only ...

Daniel Stacey was a senior writer with the Wall Street Journal covering South Asia from Delhi, India.

Today, every permanent resident of Pitcairn can trace their lineage back to the Bounty mutineers, with the wreck of the ship still visible beneath the island’s waters.

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, but ...

Though Pitcairn Island had become a British colony in 1893, British ships still shunned the faraway, surf-swept island where the mutineers of the Bounty had settled.

Since the 18th Century, Pitcairn has been a remote outpost for the ancestors of the mutinous HMS Bounty crew. Archaeologists think the first settlers lived on the island as late as the 15th ...

A REMOTE paradise island filled with Brit descendants has a dark past that goes back 300 years. Tucked away in a cluster of islands in the Pacific Ocean, Pitcairn Island is one of the most isolated… ...

Made famous by the mutiny on the HMS Bounty, Pitcairn Island is the most remote inhabited island in the world. A Sunnyvale retiree recently went there.

While he’s never visited the islands, as a child Walker would celebrate Bounty Day – which commemorates the burning of the HMS Bounty by the mutineers in 1790 – and was taught the history by ...

Pitcairn Island offers many secluded, rocky bays for visitors to explore. Craig Tansley It took an intensive two-month search for the Bounty mutineers to find Pitcairn, an island chosen by mutiny ...