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Extractions: Home Air Lodging Car ... Main Menu While the Polynesians who arrived presumably brought the rich culture of Tahiti with them, much of that has died out on Pitcairn. Weaving palm baskets is one skill that has been maintained, and many of the Pitcairn men carve intricate animals and replicas of the Bounty out of local timber. The language is English, but among themselves Pitcairners speak a slightly slurred version full of local idiom, words and place names that make it almost impossible for outsiders to understand. It includes many Tahitian and 18th-century English seafaring words: if they drink too much, all hands (ie everyone) are likely to capsize (fall over), for example. Pitcairners embraced the Seventh Day Adventist Church in the late 19th century, which was responsible for the children's education until 1948, when a teacher was finally sent from New Zealand. Alcohol is banned (that ban seems to be slipping) and the islanders are not allowed to eat pork or fish without scales, which means the plentiful crayfish in island waters are used only as bait. Land is held under a system devised by Fletcher Christian and is based on family ownership. Pitcairners are virtually self sufficient in food, although they do a lively trade with passing ships. They raise goats and poultry for their own consumption, and goats also roam wild on the island. They catch fish around the coast, but there are no commercial fisheries.
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Extractions: History Polynesians may have settled Pitcairn as long as 3500 years ago, at least temporarily, and archaeologists believe there was a Polynesian settlement on the island between the 12th and 15th centuries AD. At that time, a lively trade was carried on between Pitcairn, Henderson - which was inhabited as well - and Mangareva, in what is now the Gambier Archipelago of south-eastern French Polynesia. These earlier settlements left burial sites containing human skeletons, petroglyphs, earth ovens, stone adzes and other artefacts, although no one is sure where the original Pitcairners came from. Pitcairn is likely to have been important for its quarry where stone adzes were mined. Despite Pitcairn's diminutive size, its fertile volcanic soils were (and still are) able to support a permanent population. By 1606, when Spanish explorer de Quiros came looking for his own personal El Dorado and found Henderson, both it and presumably Pitcairn were deserted. Pitcairn's European discovery had to wait until 1767, when Philip Carteret sailed by on HMS
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Extractions: You are here: Home Web Centers > Travel While the Polynesians who arrived presumably brought the rich culture of Tahiti with them, much of that has died out on Pitcairn. Weaving palm baskets is one skill that has been maintained, and many of the Pitcairn men carve intricate animals and replicas of the Bounty out of local timber. The language is English, but among themselves Pitcairners speak a slightly slurred version full of local idiom, words and place names that make it almost impossible for outsiders to understand. It includes many Tahitian and 18th-century English seafaring words: if they drink too much, all hands (ie everyone) are likely to capsize (fall over), for example. Pitcairners embraced the Seventh Day Adventist Church in the late 19th century, which was responsible for the children's education until 1948, when a teacher was finally sent from New Zealand. Alcohol is banned (that ban seems to be slipping) and the islanders are not allowed to eat pork or fish without scales, which means the plentiful crayfish in island waters are used only as bait. Land is held under a system devised by Fletcher Christian and is based on family ownership. Pitcairners are virtually self sufficient in food, although they do a lively trade with passing ships. They raise goats and poultry for their own consumption, and goats also roam wild on the island. They catch fish around the coast, but there are no commercial fisheries.
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Extractions: Pitcairn Islands Islands Guide Henderson Island english - uninhabitated raised reef island. Includes history, map, geography, and the monkey story. Pitcairn Island Web Site english - refuge of the HMS Bounty Mutineers (1787) and home to their descendants. Includes a directory, history, language, handicrafts, culture. Pitcairn Island Government english - Official web page of the Government of Pitcairn Island. This page is still under development, but provides information for intending visitors to Pitcairn, information from our Philatelic Bureau and a brief history of Pitcairn. You can also read a great deal of background information from Paul Lareau's Pitcairn web site . History and Culture Mutiny on the HMS Bounty english - In the year 1787, Lieutenant William Bligh, a young British Naval Officer having most recently served as sailing master to Captain James Cook on his voyages to the South Pacific, was commissioned by Sir Joseph Banks and the British Admiralty, to undertake a voyage in a small ship, HMS Bounty.... History, biography, genealogy. Pitcairn Islands Study Center english - A museum/ research facility on the campus of Pacific Union College, Angwin (Napa Valley) California. The Study Center contains the largest North American collection of materials relating to the Mutiny on the Bounty, Captain William Bligh, H.M.S. Bounty, Pitcairn and Norfolk Islands.
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Extractions: Protect America's freedom to speak out against evil, no matter who perpetrates it! In the U.K. In 1789, crewmembers of HMS Bounty, led by Masters Mate Fletcher Christian and Midshipman Ned Young, mutinied against the command of Lt. William Bligh. Bligh and his supporters were set adrift in the ship's launch, and against all odds, Bligh led them over 3,000 miles to safety in Batavia (now Djakarta, Indonesia). The mutineers returned to Tahiti, where some stayed and were later captured. A handful of the mutineers along with their Tahitian consorts sailed the ship to Pitcairn Island where their descendants live today. This web site will tell you much about this famous event in maritime history, about which 6 movies, 1 play, and over 2,000 books and articles have been written. Located nearly 1,000 miles from the nearest inhabited place, Pitcairn is home to 40 descendants of the
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Extractions: In the year 1787, Lieutenant William Bligh, a young British Naval Officer having most recently served as sailing master to Captain James Cook on his voyages to the South Pacific, was commissioned by Sir Joseph Banks and the British Admiralty, to undertake a voyage in a small ship, HMS Bounty. The goal of the voyage was to obtain a large number of breadfruit plantings to be taken to the Caribbean where they would be transplanted to provide food for the slaves in those colonies. For a brief introduction to this historic voyage, you may want to look at: By Butch Kerr The voyage was difficult, and ill-feelings were rampant, although probably no more than on other long sea voyages of the period. After a long stay in Tahiti to enable the gathering and stowing of the breadfruit plantings on board the ship, the Bounty began its voyage to the Caribbean and then back to England. On the morning of April 28th, 1789, led by Masters Mate Fletcher Christian, twelve crewmembers staged the now famous mutiny, capturing the ship, and setting Lt. Bligh and his supporters adrift in the ship's launch. Who was at fault?
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Extractions: About us Send me a Brochure Tripbuilder (Shopping Cart) Send me a Quotation ... Pacific News Member of Pitcairn (Introduction) A small volcanic island, rugged in appearance rising to 330m, it is situated in the Pacific Ocean roughly mid-way between Panama and New Zealand, east south east of Tahiti . Even at Bounty Bay, the only landing place, access to Pitcairn Island from the sea is difficult. Go for further general information on Pitcairn to: About the Country, Pitcairn Country Profile Culture Henderson Island ... Visitors Info, Information on Pitcairn For product information on Pitcairn, go to: Hotels Rental Cars Flights Excursions ... Tours For questions and remarks, please contact webmaster@pacificislandtravel.com
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Extractions: HMS Bounty It is not surprising that the most famous of all mutinies , that of the British HMS Bounty , has become ideal fodder for popular history and legend. The mutiny has generated five films (who can think of Fletcher Christian without picturing Marlon Brando ?) as well as countless books (including a historical novel by Mark Twain The Great Revolution in Pitcairn Set in the paradisiacal islands of the South Seas, the mutiny involved a host of colorful characters, including the tyrannical Captain Bligh , the aristocratic Fletcher Christian (a distant relation of William Wordsworth's ), numerous uninhibited Tahitian women, and a pack of sailors made up of cockney orphans and ruffian adverturers.
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