The Pitcairn Islands (/ˈpɪtkɛərn/ PIT-kairn; Pitkern: Pitkern Ailen), officially Pitcairn, Henderson, Ducie and Oeno Islands, are a group of four volcanic...

for four centuries and then vanished. Pitcairn was settled again in 1790 by a group of British mutineers on HMS Bounty and Tahitians. Adamstown is named...

HMS Pitcairn (K589) was a Colony-class frigate of the United Kingdom that served during World War II. She originally was ordered by the United States Navy...

Pitcairn Island is the only inhabited island of the Pitcairn Islands, in the southern Pacific Ocean, of which many inhabitants are descendants of mutineers...

nine of the mutineers from HMS Bounty, led by Fletcher Christian, abducted 18 native Tahitians and settled on Pitcairn Island, afterwards setting fire...

ancestral history and culture of the Pitcairn Islanders, most of whom are descended from the sailors who mutinied on HMS Bounty in 1789: the blue, yellow...

later, in 1825, HMS Blossom, on a voyage of exploration under Captain Frederick William Beechey, arrived on Christmas Day off Pitcairn and spent 19 days...

postal history of the Pitcairn Islands began with letters being sent without postage stamps, as none were available on Pitcairn. In 1921, the United Kingdom...

the British sloop HMS Swallow, commanded by Captain Philip Carteret. The island was named after Scottish midshipman Robert Pitcairn, a fifteen-year-old...

accompanying Tahitians have lived on Pitcairn into the 21st century. His Majesty's Armed Vessel (HMAV) Bounty, or HMS Bounty, was built in 1784 at the Blaydes...

In 2004, seven men living on Pitcairn Island faced 55 charges relating to sexual offences against children and young adults. The accused represented a...

South Pacific on HMS Swallow, captained by Philip Carteret. Pitcairn was born in Burntisland, Fife, in 1752. His father, John Pitcairn (1722–75), was a...

adventurer. In 1832 he arrived on Pitcairn Island which was first inhabited in the 1790s by British mutineers from HMS Bounty and some Tahitians who joined...

daughters. One son, Robert Pitcairn, was a midshipman in the Royal Navy. On 3 July 1767 the 15-year-old boy, aboard the sloop HMS Swallow, was the first person...

Tahitian women settled on isolated Pitcairn Island, where they stripped and burned the vessel. Christian died on Pitcairn, possibly killed in a conflict with...

respective islands. It is named for HMS Bounty, although the ship never saw Norfolk Island. Bounty Day is celebrated on Pitcairn Island on 23 January, in commemoration...

were captured by HMS Pandora in 1791 and returned to England for trial, while Christian and eight others evaded discovery on Pitcairn Island. The Admiralty...

island in the south Pacific Ocean. It is part of the Pitcairn Island Group, together with Pitcairn, Oeno, and Ducie Islands. Measuring 9.6 by 5.1 kilometres...

list of people Frank Pitcairn, penname of British journalist Claud Cockburn (1904–1981) HMS Pitcairn (K589), a British frigate Pitcairn (schooner), a schooner...

uninhabited atoll in the Pitcairn Islands group, which also includes Pitcairn, Henderson and Oeno islands. Ducie lies east of Pitcairn Island, and east of...

inherited from the 194 Pitcairn settlers in 1856. All of the people that claim Pitcairn ancestry are descended from the British HMS Bounty mutineers and...

March 1829), was the last survivor of the Bounty mutineers who settled on Pitcairn Island in January 1790, the year after the mutiny. His real name was John...

captained the sealing ship Topaz that rediscovered the Pitcairn Islands in 1808, whilst one of HMS Bounty's mutineers was still living. Mayhew was born...

the wreck of HMS Bounty. Artefacts from the wreck, such as the cannon were conserved at the Queensland Museum before returning to Pitcairn for display...

to Pitcairn, saying that their ancestors had effectively renounced their British citizenship by committing an act of treason (the burning of HMS Bounty)...

settled on Pitcairn Island with the Bounty Mutineers. She took part in Ned Young's plot to murder male Polynesians who had travelled on HMS Bounty and...

Pitcairn's Island is the third installment in the fictional trilogy by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall about the mutiny aboard HMS Bounty. It is...

Christian (born 26 June 1951, Pitcairn Island) is a politician, convicted sex offender and child rapist from the Pitcairn Islands. He was mayor of the...

ex-PG-192 to UK as HMS Papua (K588) USS Pilford (PF-85) ex-PG-193 to UK as HMS Pitcairn (K589) USS St. Helena (PF-86) ex-Pasley to UK as HMS St. Helena (K590)...

Retrieved 19 January 2024. @NavyLookout (10 February 2024). "@hms_tamar visited the remote 🇵🇳Pitcairn Islands in mid-January" (Tweet). Retrieved 10 February...