| New life ? Free land, interested ? 14:50 - Sep 21 with 2448 views | KeithHaynes |
British territory looking for people to move there to increase the population.
A bit of history.
HMS Bounty and Mutiny on the Bounty
In 1790, nine of the mutineers from the Bounty, along with the native Tahitian men and women who were with them (six men, 11 women, and a baby girl), settled on Pitcairn Island and set fire to the Bounty. The inhabitants of the island were well aware of the Bounty's location, which is still visible underwater in Bounty Bay, but the wreckage gained significant attention in 1957 when documented by National Geographic explorer Luis Marden. Although the settlers survived by farming and fishing, the initial period of settlement was marked by serious tensions among them. Alcoholism, murder, disease and other ills took the lives of most mutineers and Tahitian men. John Adams and Ned Young turned to the scriptures, using the ship's Bible as their guide for a new and peaceful society. Young eventually died of an asthmatic infection.
Ducie Island was rediscovered in 1791 by Royal Navy captain Edwards aboard HMS Pandora, while searching for the Bounty mutineers. He named it after Francis Reynolds-Moreton, 3rd Baron Ducie, also a captain in the Royal Navy.
The Pitcairn islanders reported it was not until 27 December 1795 that the first ship since the Bounty was seen from the island, but it did not approach the land and they could not make out the nationality. A second ship appeared in 1801, but made no attempt to communicate with them. A third came sufficiently near to see their house, but did not try to send a boat on shore. Finally, the American sealing ship Topaz, under Mayhew Folger, became the first to visit the island, when the crew spent ten hours on Pitcairn in February 1808.[15] Whalers subsequently became regular visitors to the island. The last recorded whaler to visit was the James Arnold in 1888.[16] |  |
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| New life ? Free land, interested ? on 20:42 - Sep 21 with 787 views | Lohengrin |
| New life ? Free land, interested ? on 18:16 - Sep 21 by lifelong |
We anchored off the Island and the locals came out in long boats and came aboard our ship, which was a large cargo vessel, named the Port Vindex which was a aircraft carrier during WW2 and converted to a cargo vessel after the war. They were in possession of a number of items of souvenirs that they were attempting to sell.
A few of us went across to the island in one of our lifeboats and spent a couple of hours there, the locals seemed ok.
We had facilities on the ship for 12 passengers and we had left Auckland and stopped in Pitcairn to drop off a doctor there and oddly enough his surname was Christian. |
The only thing I know about Pitcairn’s inhabitants apart from the Fletcher Christian story is what Ben Fogle had to say in his book ‘The Tea Time Islands.’
It must have changed quite a bit since you were there as he describes it as a complete nut house! He was accused of being a smuggler, then a spy, then they threw him out. Banished.
He must have been in a state of shock. It’s impossible to imagine Ben being anything other than his very polite, rather posh self.  |  |
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| New life ? Free land, interested ? on 21:04 - Sep 21 with 758 views | KeithHaynes |
| New life ? Free land, interested ? on 20:42 - Sep 21 by Lohengrin |
The only thing I know about Pitcairn’s inhabitants apart from the Fletcher Christian story is what Ben Fogle had to say in his book ‘The Tea Time Islands.’
It must have changed quite a bit since you were there as he describes it as a complete nut house! He was accused of being a smuggler, then a spy, then they threw him out. Banished.
He must have been in a state of shock. It’s impossible to imagine Ben being anything other than his very polite, rather posh self. |
British domination the world throughout is a really interesting subject.
Not sure it’s a thing that could be discussed properly on here though. | |
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| New life ? Free land, interested ? on 22:50 - Sep 21 with 714 views | KeithHaynes |
That’s a lovely bowl. | |
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| New life ? Free land, interested ? on 23:42 - Sep 21 with 695 views | howenjack |
Picture 2 shows the musket ball he used to weigh out the daily ration of bread . Imagine having to survive for days on end on 1 musketballs weight of bread 3 times a day !
It was down to Blighs naval discipline that got them through the journey . |  | | |
| New life ? Free land, interested ? on 09:42 - Sep 22 with 647 views | onehunglow |
| New life ? Free land, interested ? on 21:04 - Sep 21 by KeithHaynes |
British domination the world throughout is a really interesting subject.
Not sure it’s a thing that could be discussed properly on here though. |
It could
Many European nations were colonialists and expanded their interests.
We were not the worst;for that,Belgium,Netherlands,Portugal,Spain,France even Italy vie for the worst.
The Dutch or Belgies for me but it's a close thing | |
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| New life ? Free land, interested ? on 10:26 - Sep 22 with 641 views | controversial_jack |
| New life ? Free land, interested ? on 09:42 - Sep 22 by onehunglow |
It could
Many European nations were colonialists and expanded their interests.
We were not the worst;for that,Belgium,Netherlands,Portugal,Spain,France even Italy vie for the worst.
The Dutch or Belgies for me but it's a close thing |
Concentration camps in South Africa. Torture chambers in Aden. the Chinese resettlement in Malaya, The Amritsar massacre the Cyprus internment's. Crushing the Iraqi revolution after ww1, Partitioning of India. The Irish famine and everything that went with that, Kenya. The Bengal famine. Ok, some of them were not deliberate, just down to incompetence. This is only a bit of what we did
No country, with the exception of the US has even come close | | | |
| New life ? Free land, interested ? on 10:31 - Sep 22 with 636 views | KeithHaynes |
So, anyone want to live on Pitcairn ? 💠| |
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| New life ? Free land, interested ? on 11:23 - Sep 22 with 618 views | Mad_Mike |
| New life ? Free land, interested ? on 19:59 - Sep 21 by KeithHaynes |
Jesus Christ 🤪 |
Died for our sins | | | |
| New life ? Free land, interested ? on 12:00 - Sep 22 with 607 views | Boundy |
| New life ? Free land, interested ? on 11:23 - Sep 22 by Mad_Mike |
Died for our sins |
Well that was a waste of time and a life | |
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| New life ? Free land, interested ? on 12:12 - Sep 22 with 605 views | Lohengrin |
| New life ? Free land, interested ? on 10:31 - Sep 22 by KeithHaynes |
So, anyone want to live on Pitcairn ? 💠|
Had the chance to move to Vancouver Island with the wife decades ago, before we were married.
All these years later I often find myself wondering what if? I recognise it now as probably the one, great life-chance I let slip by. Too young at the time to recognise it for what it was. | |
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| New life ? Free land, interested ? on 13:50 - Sep 22 with 581 views | onehunglow |
| New life ? Free land, interested ? on 12:12 - Sep 22 by Lohengrin |
Had the chance to move to Vancouver Island with the wife decades ago, before we were married.
All these years later I often find myself wondering what if? I recognise it now as probably the one, great life-chance I let slip by. Too young at the time to recognise it for what it was. |
Beautiful but damp.
I was set to go to Melbourne in 72 . She bottled it and just as well. | |
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| New life ? Free land, interested ? on 20:01 - Sep 25 with 498 views | howenjack |
What you have to remember is that Pitcairn is a very remote place . A small island in the pacific far away from anywhere. It was chosen as the final refuge of mutineers who knew the navy would come after them for revenge and they would swing if arrested . They picked it purely for its remoteness and the less likelihood of them being discovered . They couldn't stay in Tahiti because that would be the first place the navy would look . Initially they had been sent to collect a cargo of breadfruit which had been seen as a viable prospective food source for slaves working on British plantations . In Tahiti where they had docked for several weeks Bligh hadn't reckoned on the affect the local beautiful women would have on his crew . Their first night ashore on the island was a scene of naked sex paraded as a welcoming party by the natives with the chief and Blighs crew watching on .
After this things were never going to be easily returned to normal and some crew members became tattooed like Tahitians . A native tahitian woman would grant her sexual favours for a nail!! - the ship's carpenter must have been in second heaven! . Some crew members became romantically involved with tahitian women and lived as man and wife .Bligh became increasingly concerned at the way things were coming apart at the seams
It was hardly a surprise that shortly after leaving Tahiti some of the crew mutinied after spending no small amount of time in what was an idyllic paradise. | | | |
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