Mutiny on the bounty was my favourite book during my childhood.I was fascinated by the story and read the book multiple times.What an amazing story.

@user-jy2cn3cn4t

4 ай бұрын

@claudeanururdha7907.Yes,it was my favorite from childhood too.

@anthonydowling3356

2 ай бұрын

@@user-jy2cn3cn4tMy favourite book as a child was Robinson Crusoe .

@rogerperry3913

Күн бұрын

I loved the story of the bounty,blyth certainly new how to navigate. 1800 mls in an open boat,then the navy sending hms pandora to hunt mutineers,another incredible adventure

When my wife's aunt passed away. We inherited some books. One of them was a hundred year old copy of the trilogy, Mutiny on the Bounty, Men Against the sea, and Pitcairn Island. I used to read it once a year. Probably my favourite book(s) of all time!

@michaelarmstrong5065

4 ай бұрын

Yes read them many years ago as a teen.Great books and always wanted to be there

@John-nc4bl

4 ай бұрын

The plundering and greedy Brits killed millions of people during their three centuries of empire days.@@michaelarmstrong5065

@marcmoretti2502

2 ай бұрын

I agree, Men Against the Sea in particular is one of my favourite books of all time. What an incredible true story of leadership, hope, skill, luck and survival.

Only Pitcairn island itself is inhabited. The other islands in the group, including (the fairly large) Henderson Island, are atolls with insufficient vegetation or fresh water to sustain a human population. Pitcairn is volcanic (so much higher than the others, and with fertile soil).

@alanfoster6589

3 ай бұрын

We landed on Henderson. Pretty place, way too much plastic trash on the beach.

Nearly 20 years ago, 7 men on the island (one third of the male population) including the mayor, were convicted of committing paedophilia there. They claimed at trial that British law had no jurisdiction over them.

@geoswan4984

5 ай бұрын

They also claimed that, on Pitcairn, the age of consent was 12 years old.

@mickvonbornemann3824

5 ай бұрын

@@geoswan4984 It was, that was the normal AoC historically. Note the Bar Mitzvah at 12 was when Jewish boys became men

@TheBatugan77

5 ай бұрын

In betweenie weenies?

@zeeqq105

5 ай бұрын

I’m not surprised. Sick people.

@SuperMrHiggins

4 ай бұрын

@@mickvonbornemann3824 Yeah, but this is 20 years ago.

Bounty was an armed vessel, a collier converted for the mission, slow sluggish and very tough. Frigates were fast and maneuverable, frigates had about 250 crewmen, and British frigates had 33 to 38 heavy guns. Bounty had 4 and those very light cannon, and about 40 men

They shoved then Lieutenant Bligh and the non-mutiny men adrift in a 23-ft. dinghy and... I'll be darned if Bligh & 18 crew didn't make it to Timor, 3,600 miles in 47 days (!) and ultimately back to London. Amazing. Truly amazing.

@allyoopdan991

4 ай бұрын

Capt Bligh was a masterful navigator.

@GrenvilleP710

4 ай бұрын

They certainly did not drift anywhere .They were very well under control. Brilliant voyage. Not only that but some the company even built their own Sckooner in the east indies which they ( after the RN ship Pandora sent to capture them) sank and sold it at Batavia to pay their own passage home to England.

@Biggles732

4 ай бұрын

There's an island in Torres strait between top of Australia and New Guinea where passing ships would stop to drop off, pick up and sort through mail that needed delivery to where they were headed for. It's interesting that all European countries honoured the integrity of the set up even during hostilities. Maybe there were other such mail points elsewhere on the globe . So much of those times was so well explained in a mid school history textbook of 1938 I came across once. Australian textbook printed in India of course. The novel by Bryce Courtney..Mathew Flinders' Cat is also informative.

Good job, Julie. You speak clearly, just the facts ... although many, many ppl have it in their head this is a "client list" and they just don't hear you clearly. Oh well!!

That partially stable wifi connection is what sold me. Sign me up. lol

@Nomadcreations

2 ай бұрын

Yep Minutes a day.............

@PETERODZZ

28 күн бұрын

😅

My wife stopped there on a sailing trip around the world, she said it’s incredibly creepy

@Tha-King-Arthur

5 ай бұрын

Creepy in a way off?

@boathemian7694

5 ай бұрын

@@Tha-King-Arthur sexual abuse kind of creepy

@ingerlander

5 ай бұрын

What that before she was your wife....just asking

@MJW238

5 ай бұрын

It’s an insular community shut of from the outside world - they can get pretty bad.

@alexanderritchie5845

5 ай бұрын

@@Tha-King-Arthur Gang R*pe, Other Sexual Abuse, If a woman is 12 she is seen as ready etc. Very messed up place. Alot of people got jailed for it in the early 2000s.

Thank you for sharing.😊

Was always fascinated with this place

@claudeanurudha7907

5 ай бұрын

I read the book Mutiny on the bounty during my childhood and was fascinated by the story.

Brilliant! Thank you!

Very Informative, thanks! Love history!

Fascinating, thanks for illuminating 😊

A beautiful and rugged place. Making carvings and such for the occasional cruise ship that calls has provided islanders with another source of income. They also sell what they assert is the cleanest honey in the world. When I was there, I had a nice chat with Tom Christian, Fletcher Christian's great-great-great-great grandson, who embraced his geneological celebrity with grace. Sadly, Tom passed on some years ago. There is on-and-off talk of New Zealand building an airstrip, but there is simply no suitable place. And then there's the cost-to-benefit ratio.

@Biggles732

4 ай бұрын

But planes can land okay on relatively small aircraft carriers. Just line up two decommissioned carriers for extra measure.

@alanfoster6589

4 ай бұрын

That's a fun idea, but not enough people on Pitcairn to justify it. Even landing something like an Osprey would be tough. The place is pretty much straight up and down. @@Biggles732

@williamjpellas0314

3 ай бұрын

Or purchase a couple of Japanese flying boats and use those for occasional connections from New Zealand to Pitcairn.

@alanfoster6589

3 ай бұрын

Good idea. Range and refueling issues, though.@@williamjpellas0314

@StickyKeys187

2 ай бұрын

But aren't seaplanes a thing? They could just land on the water 😂

Pitcairn islanders were given land on Norfolk island to colonise due to inbreeding on Pitcairn Inhabitants on Norfolk were given 26 acres for men 13 for women

Informative and concise. 👍

I thought this was going to be a practical joke about the 1960's tv comedy show Gilligan's Island. But, this story has an interesting history.

@crapisnice

4 ай бұрын

yes, interestingly RACIST and another jerusalem supremacy pawns derangement

Hi thanks for the info

Interesting video, but the Bounty was not a frigate. It was much smaller and lightly armed. So few men would have had trouble handling anything bigger.

@crapisnice

4 ай бұрын

yes, theres not anything bigger that jerusalem supremacism and germanic pawns falling for it

There's been several movies about the mutineers but I believe the tale of Captain Bligh and his loyal men traveling back to England should be told. Also how does the Pitcairn Island Isolation compare to the Easter Island?

A superb and informative video,many thanks,God bless

@crapisnice

4 ай бұрын

another jerusalem supremacism's criminal germanic tribe pawn

What foes it mean "cruise ships have been lost on the islands"?

@tastella

4 ай бұрын

Odd glitch in the narration indeed. Apparently their being lost "boosts the local economy." 😮

One of my favorite films. The Bounty with Sir Anthony Hopkins Mel Gibson Daniel Day Lewis Liam Neesom Sir Laurence Olivier. Great acting and adventure.

@alxx1378

4 ай бұрын

There are 3 movies about bounty one black and white with sir Charles Laugton as captain Bligh and Clark Gable as Fletcher, the most hateful Bligh. The second my preference with Marlon Brando as Fletcher and the third one witch you are talking about. All 3 are great but Marlon.

@MauriceDunstan

4 ай бұрын

I liked the one with Charles Laughton and Marlon Brando

The mutiny on the bounty consisted of the crew leaving the captain..by just walking off.they probably didn't want captain Bligh ruling them,so instinctively,they shot off into Pitcairn with joyous excitement.the warmer climate and sight of palm trees yielding coconuts,and a plentiful supply of fish would have rocketed their excitement to stratospheric levels.

@geoswan4984

5 ай бұрын

They didn't LEAVE Lieutenant Bligh. Shortly after they left Tahiti they seized the ship, by force. They let Bligh, and men who didn't want to Mutiny, leave in the ship's longest boat. Bligh took 18 loyal men with him. He had to leave some loyal men behind, as the boat just wasn't large enough. I'd always thought that 20 foot boat had the shape of a cruise ship lifeboat. But, when I visited the Portsmouth Naval Museum, I saw a modern reproduction of that boat. It was much more narrow than a lifeboat. I am amazed Bligh was able to fit even a dozen men on board. Bligh sailed that 20 foot boat 3,500 miles, to Portugese Timor. This is still regarded as one of the most amazing voyages in maritime history. The reproduction was built, from the original blueprints. It was built because a descendant, maybe one of Bligh's descendants, replicated the original voyage, in a reproduction.

@claudeanurudha7907

5 ай бұрын

I remember reading the book Mutiny on the bounty during my childhhood.I was facinated by the story and read the book multiple times.

@paulkazjack

5 ай бұрын

You're so mis-informed.

@MJW238

5 ай бұрын

How can you just walk off in the middle of the ocean?

@MrMigido

4 ай бұрын

Stop wasting the internet.

Tristan da Cunha is also often billed as the most isolated island in the world.

@boathemian7694

5 ай бұрын

My wife stopped there also on her sailing trip, the local welder made a new part for the boat. She liked that place much more than Pitcairn

@geography_joe

4 ай бұрын

@@boathemian7694how can i do that sailing trip lol

@boathemian7694

4 ай бұрын

@@geography_joe get a small sailboat and spend 8 months hanging on

@Biggles732

4 ай бұрын

​@@boathemian7694 nothing less than 15 metres I think .

@boathemian7694

4 ай бұрын

@@Biggles732 everyone has an opinion about that. She was on a 39’ performance cruiser, spade rudder and fin keel. The boat held up very well, but it was sailed by very good couple of sailors. My first serious blue water boat was a Hanna design that was 30’ LOA. I would have taken her anywhere lol.

Crazy that I’ve been there and know some of the people in those pictures. 🤩⛵️😃

@deverborgentelefoon4479

5 ай бұрын

Wow.

@Ardass486

4 ай бұрын

Can Brit's really emigrate there?

@daurgo2001

4 ай бұрын

@@Ardass486 yes

@crapisnice

4 ай бұрын

call it racist, and jerusalem supremacy's pawns derangement

@Biggles732

4 ай бұрын

Surely the Falklands would be preferable

Thank you.

Living in Australia, we know about Pitcairn and Captain Bligh . Crazy that they burnt down the ship . Captain Bligh was an astounding navigator to be able to navigate tje lifeboat back to Dutch Indonesia. Sydney cove Australia was the other option. I'm considering that offer to live on Pitcairn . So between Australia and Pitcairn is Norfolk island and there's another closer in too . Surely with a well equipped yacht a good lifestyle presents itself maybe doing utoob videos on the side .

The sailing vessel, a two masted traditionally rigged barquantine that played the HMS Bounty in the movie, was named the SS Marquez and it was in port with us in Plymouth England while we were putting the rigging on our two masted traditionally rigged schooner, as well as deck houses. We got to know the crew of both them and their sister ship the SS Inca and we helped to install some of the custom bunks that we had in our ship, which they liked very much and wanted some for the officers. Apparently they were tired of sleeping in hammocks, as was tradition on the old tea clippers, although not well liked! Everything else on both ships was completely traditional to the era, hemp ropes, cotton sails, dead eyes instead of bottle screws, but it came across very authentic in the movie if you knew what to look for. We partied with the whole crew of both ships before they departed for the Tall Ships Race that was to be held over in the states somewhere that year, unfortunately, the Inca hit a squall in the middle of the Atlantic and their hatches were not buttoned up, and she foundered and went down with all hands. That has always affected me deeply because I almost joined the crew of the Inca as they were short hands at the time. Funny the things you remember, but most of all that tomorrow is promised to no man. 🙏💪⚓️

0:47)William Bligh was a newly minted Lieu Tenant. The Bounty was an Armed Merchant Vessel(AMV). Much like the AMV Lusitania and the commerce raiders of WW I & WW II.

Thank you

Partially reliable Wifi. Think about that for a moment.

@C-Here

5 ай бұрын

Sounds blissful to me!! 😂😂

@santorini8423

4 ай бұрын

Bit like the hotel I’m currently in on ko Chang Thailand……….

@joeyjamison5772

2 ай бұрын

It must mean they have Spectrum!

very nice video.... could have also mentioned the dramatized movies on the subject

Polynesian left due to not enough food, water or women, that why it was empty

Wow very nice story about history of this island. thanks for sharing this video ☺️ New subscriber from. A&V mini farm 🤠

An ancestor of mine called John Sumner was one of the mutineers. He was caught with three others and put in chains on the ship Pandora. This ship founded of the coast of Australia, John and the other mutineers went down with the ship as the captain would not released them.

Amazing

I lived in the island of Saipan. Went to an inter island chamber of commerce meeting. Met a man there from Pitcairn Island. He said he was very happy that an Australian navel ship was in. He said it would help the gene pool.

@crapisnice

4 ай бұрын

what a load of jerusalem's crimminal pawns and darwin pseudoscience "evolutive" baltic tribe wackos

@nolongerlistless

4 ай бұрын

Australian navels are the best! Their navy and naval ships are almost as shiny as their famously seductive belly buttons, lol!

They made a movie about this in 1984 called The Bounty, with Anthony Hopkins, Mel Gibson, Daniel Day Lewis, Lawrence Olivier, Bernard Hill, Liam Neeson and others. It's a good movie.

Keep it in the family as they all said!

where do i sign up?

My wife visited there with her family in the 70s. Years later, my sister-in-law married a Pitcairn man, and now we have a niece! Yes, Pitcairn is haunted as hell! 😮

@sankara6823

4 ай бұрын

Haunted how? Give us a story

This is the safest place to be in Wold War 3

@davidtrindle6473

4 ай бұрын

There will be no safe place in WWWIII.

@LexipMedia

4 ай бұрын

Yeah, until the stragglers from everywhere else slowly drift in. Oh, and the fallout as well. Wait, you said safest, not necessarily safe. Never mind.☺

@ppmppm7010

4 ай бұрын

Not if you're female

@farmerfarmerer3847

4 ай бұрын

@@ppmppm7010 Not if your Male either, many people have fallen off the steep cliffs. Theres a documentary on here somewhere, you can read between the lines.

@MauriceDunstan

4 ай бұрын

I'm booking my passage!

I've been to pitcain several times when I was at sea with NZ shipping comp & Federal steam in the 60" 70" store's & timber we use to drift & off load into there dorries to deep to anchor

@margaretfarquhar2069

4 ай бұрын

did the same on the act 2 in the 80 s

This is unbelievable

Thank god, she's a real woman 🙏🙌🫶👏👏👏

Thought this was going to be about Diego Garcia.

@TheBatugan77

5 ай бұрын

There you go thinking again.

If I was much younger and had my full health and strength, i could understand looking for smaller islands with less and less people, England controlls quiet a few small islands no one lives on we ith developed water systems and game

I met a guy sharing a room in a house in 1987 in Sydney who claimed to be a decendant from Pitcairn. He was weird and suspected of molesting one of the young girls at the house (I found out about this years later after leaving the house).

Never heard of Bouvet island?? Or do you mean inhabited.

This is the first time I've ever heard of this island. How do people survive there, what kind of income does it have ? Is it under British rule or does it just go by British law ?

@farmerfarmerer3847

4 ай бұрын

There are plenty of films documentaries on here check them out.

Love the content of the video, however, that horrible “music” you have going in the background is so distracting that I found it hard to listen to. Just some feedback. Lose the music and you will have a more attractive video.

What does that mean, "cruise ships have been lost on the islands"? No further explanation? My conclusion, from the information given, is that the "cruise ships" got lost on land and couldn't navigate back to sea; like beached whales. Can anyone provide a better explanation from the information given? What happened to the crews and passengers of these "lost cruise ships"?

How exactly do cruise ships get lost on the island?

The Bounty was not a RN Frigate She was designated HMAV His Majesty's Armed Vessel this is a small ship with only one commissioned officer Even Smaller than Cooks Endevour (designated HMBarke) a frigate was considerably bigger than both of these.

In establishing the colony and it's government, the British Government granted full adult franchise to the islanders. This making bit the first Government in the world where women had the right to vote. This was about 1850, from memory, and because the population was so small. In terms of granting full adult franchise New Zealand was second in 1894 and South Australia third in 1896.

I didn't know Harry Bellefonte grew up there.

Like to be there ❤️❤️

What do they do in the event of appendicitis, a bad toothache or a broken leg?

@ceejayretired

Ай бұрын

Medical staff from NZ work there for several months at a time. One of my co workers went there for 3 months. Addit, in an emergency they can get additional help.

Is this offer available for Australians?

@justonecornetto80

4 ай бұрын

No. British citizens only but immigration applications from Commonwealth citizens are looked upon favourably, you just wouldn't get the free patch of land.

Very interesting! 🙋

Now what was the name of the ship?

@duncanbananatyne3890

4 ай бұрын

Romeo

The mission of the _Bounty_ was not to supply the "small British outpost" (as there was none) but to retrieve breadfruit plants to bring back to the Caribbean islands, there to be grown as food for the slave populations there. Accordingly, _Bounty_ embarked a botanist.

I thought it was Skull Island that is the most isolated. King Kong lived there.

Maybe thats not far away from Christmas Island. We've been there last year.

I thought this was going to be about The Isle of Sheppey 😂

The Bounty wasn’t a frigate. It was a small 3 masted merchant ship

Bligh became a Governor in Australia

How do they get on for fresh potable water ?????😮😮😮

@marknewton6984

5 ай бұрын

How's the pizza delivery there?

@valentin5403

5 ай бұрын

@@marknewton6984 by WiFi

@TheBatugan77

5 ай бұрын

What about 5G connectivity?

@colinallen8924

5 ай бұрын

@@TheBatugan77 There is 4G.

@colinallen8924

5 ай бұрын

That is an ongoing problem as there is no permanent fresh water supply; the island has a reservoir which captures water when the springs are flowing.

Can we put the WEF on it please

Reminds me of Norwich. ‘Meet my wife and sister’ boom boom

5000 km from x is almost worthless. Might as well say a galaxy far, far away

And Bligh and the loyal seamen were not put on a dinghy, it was the ship’s launch, a longboat

No sound!??🤔

Wrong the most brutal Island is Shemya at the end of the Aluetians Island Where the Pacific and Bearing Sea meet.

So do I need British citizenship or can I just volunteer to move there? Couldn't afford it, just curious. Would never want to live on an isolated island ftm. Along, apparently, with most of the sane world.

@justonecornetto80

4 ай бұрын

You have to be a British citizen but immigration applications from Commonwealth realm citizens are looked upon favourably, you just wouldn't get the free plot of land.

Isolated? On my map it looks like it's fairly close to Rand McNally which seems quite sizeable.

"so that no one could ever find them," or so no one could leave?

MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY

If shit hits the fan then its a nice option for the right person.

@TheBatugan77

5 ай бұрын

🪭 💩😮

Crazy that I’ve been there and know some of the people in those pictures. ️

I Love to settle in such isolated island

@DhanasekaranT-de4wz

6 ай бұрын

There are too many challenges to overcome if you choose to live in such remote islands.

@gvbalajee

6 ай бұрын

@@DhanasekaranT-de4wz challenges are there ever where we should overcome that

@TheBatugan77

5 ай бұрын

​​@@gvbalajee👈😆👌 Yeah, okay junior. Says the dweeb who locks his keys in the car once a week.

‘It wasn’t until 1808 that the islands were discovered by an American whaler”. What? WTF. The British discovered it in 1790! Americans rewriting history again?!

@home4life505

5 ай бұрын

With the brutal nature of brits and how they treated people historically, distorting history is your best bet. The brits were/are supremist and brutal.

@guitarman394

5 ай бұрын

The Polynesians discovered it.

@santospaul8103

5 ай бұрын

The British didn’t discover it either lmao the jokes write themselves

@Rudeboishht

5 ай бұрын

It is HIS story

@alangoyeau

5 ай бұрын

Muricans be like that.They think they won WWII single handedly(last ones to join allied forces)or the movie Argo,where they take credit for what the Canadians did for them.Perhaps it’s because they only know the hollywood version of history.

Bouvet island crying in the corner

Any Islands in the middle of the ocean look very enticing and beautiful but trust me, living in any Islands aint that great. It gets boring quick and you get island fever. This is coming from someone who had lived in Hawaii for more than 20 years.

What makes it a "brutal" story? Isn't it more true that it's just another story?

@ronnyber

6 ай бұрын

No satellite TV or solid Internet.

@donneary7104

6 ай бұрын

@@ronnyber Sounds like the perfect place to escape the current world troubles and remain blissfully ignorant of world news.

@ronnyber

6 ай бұрын

@@donneary7104 would be amazing to visit.

@bobclifton8021

6 ай бұрын

So? Both of those have become more of a curse than a blessing.@@ronnyber

@geoswan4984

5 ай бұрын

Why brutal? Because the men all died, mostly by murdering one another, once they figured out how to make their own booze. That left most of the women to raise a couple of dozen traumatized children, assisted by the one elderly man left standing. And he had "found god". that sounds brutal to me.

I've worked them several times on 10 M phone.

@waverider227

5 ай бұрын

@@kurtm.7494 She means she is a ham radio operator so she worked (rather talked to the inhabitants via radio telephone on the 10 meter band ) hence 10 Meter Phone"

@lynnbailey1948

5 ай бұрын

Here's a link to a story about ham radio on Pitcairn Island. Based on the equipment, I'd guess this story was written in the 70s. The link indicates 73 Magazine, March 1977. www.worldradiohistory.com/hd2/IDX-Short-Wave/archive-73-idx/idx/70s/73-magazine-03-march-1977-OCR-Page-0029.pdf

Tristan de Cuna and Herd Island would vie for this titel too.

Partially stable WiFi? That means it’s not stable. 😂

I LIVED THERE FOR 22YEARS TODAY I LIVE IN ENGLAND

Im Surprised Britain and/or America didn't flatten the Island for an Air base. 🙄

@rl7012

4 ай бұрын

They would have if it were closer to a mainland.

@leerubybritvic1990

4 ай бұрын

What for it's 5000 miles from land.They don't need an airport.How would you get the materials there.

Bouvet Island is the most remote island in the world, not the Pitcairn Island. Get your facts straight.

Yea I was they my self when I was dreaming

Update to Pitcairn Colony: The UK PM Rishi Sunak & EU President Ursula von der Leyen, has mandated 23 young male, 98 young female Middle Eastern Muslims , 162 young male 237 young female African migrants to be shipped there, in support of diversity, equality & inclusion. 3 weeks & 2 days after these migrants arrived, migrant wars had completely decimated the indigenous people, & sharia law had been established as the official Pitcairn law of the land. A few weeks following the wars, most of the entire population of females had been brutally "honor killed" for unknown reasons, & the remaining males either killed each other out of jealousy & rage, or starved to death. As of this moment, the last surveillance fly-over had show no human life on the Pitcairn Island. Evidently they weren't "properly enriched" quite enough...

Incorrect. The most isolated place on the planet earth is Antarctica plain and simple

@RobespierreThePoof

2 ай бұрын

Not really. Antarctica is very connected via routine air resupply routes for half the year at multiple research stations. Pitcairn only has a handful of small vessels a year. And they have a hard time docking in rough seas, so they are sometimes turned away.

Mudineers? or Mutineers?

Sounds like this all started over woman.

@marknewton6984

5 ай бұрын

Figures.

They may be British but I've read that they are administered by New Zealand and the United Nations decolonization committee is demanding they be given their freedom. I presume independence would mean they'd get a seat at the United Nations which would be amusing

@user-uy6uc5ey5q

5 ай бұрын

Not it not part of NZ. The confusion might be as there isn't any permanent British administrator on the island, the British High Commissioner (what ambassadors are called when in a fellow Commonwealth country) to NZ is almost always also the formal governor of Pitcairn. Though in practical terms the islanders are largely self governing. I believe Britain has offered the island and attached sea territory to NZ in the past, but as these pretty much zero economic value to the island and attached seas NZ has always refused as they rightly realised it simply an expensive hold over of the British empire. This was proven about a decade ago when systemic child sex crimes where finally prosecuted and majority of men on island found guilty. The trial alone cost millions.

@freebeerfordworkers

5 ай бұрын

Thank you it's very interesting and these things are always valuable to know. I know there are various communities still scattered around the world for which Britain is responsible. In the aftermath of the Falklands the British government commissioned a study of all the scattered bits of real estate they had round the globe to see if there was any chance of a repeat. It was reported nationally as The Empire that won't go away". I think New Zealand is quite right there is absolutely nothing to be gained by being responsible for a rock in the middle of nowhere@@user-uy6uc5ey5q

@freebeerfordworkers

5 ай бұрын

I have replied thanking you for the information and mentioning a few similar British territories but for some reason it was deleted. At least I cannot see it. I don't know why because there was nothing that could be considered offensive in it@@user-uy6uc5ey5q

@colinallen8924

5 ай бұрын

Decolonisation is an odd concept with regard to Pitcairn, as it is with regard to the Falkland Islands. Neither are a colony, neither had a pre-existing native population and both are perfectly happy with the status quo. Pitcairn relies on the UK for funding, with the UK providing 90% of the annual budget; an independent Pitcairn would collapse very rapidly. Apart from defence and foreign affairs, Pitcairn is self governing with the nominal Governor being the UK High Commissioner (ambassador) to New Zealand. Rather amusingly, Pitcairn has a UK postcode.

@kenhorlor5674

4 ай бұрын

Confusion also arises from when the trial of Pitcairn Islanders was held in New Zealand, rather than returning the accused to the UK. It was cheaper to deck out a Court in NZ exactly as it would be in the UK, and to pay the Kiwis. When found guilty, the Islanders were incarcerated back on Pitcairn. The territory is now also the territorial qualification for Britain joining the CP-TPP, it being part of the Pacific.@@user-uy6uc5ey5q

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