
Pitcairn Island is arguably most renowned as the place Fletcher Christian, his fellow mutineers of the HMS Bounty in 1787, and the dozen Tahitians who threw their lot in with these Englishmen went to hide from what would have otherwise been Christian and the other Englishmen's capture and subsequent sentence to death. Then, Pitcairn was a deserted and desolate island protected from the outside world by a coral reef. Today, most of the inhabitants of Pitcairn are descendants o... (Full plot summary below)
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Pitcairn Island is arguably most renowned as the place Fletcher Christian, his fellow mutineers of the HMS Bounty in 1787, and the dozen Tahitians who threw their lot in with these Englishmen went to hide from what would have otherwise been Christian and the other Englishmen's capture and subsequent sentence to death. Then, Pitcairn was a deserted and desolate island protected from the outside world by a coral reef. Today, most of the inhabitants of Pitcairn are descendants of those original settlers, with life much as it was then. Many of today's islanders are presented and their tie to the original settlers and the Bounty described. Despite choosing this life of isolation, islanders must sometimes make contact with the outside world, which is still not easy.
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