A little note of interest. After the famed 'Muntiny on the Bounty' occurred, the island was left on it's own. After years of seclusion, the islanders found a Bible and they tried to follow the rules of the Bible – including the Saturday Sabbath! They had no "education" of the Christian Sunday! They only had the Bible to guide them…
Each year, on January 23, the inhabitants of Pitcairn, Britain’s smallest colony, burn a model of His Majesty’s Armed Vessel Bounty. The ceremony, accompanied by cheering and singing, commemorates the sinking by fire of the ship in 1790.
Her demise, off the tiny bay that now carries her name, was, deliberate or not, a moment of no return for Acting Lieutenant Fletcher Christian and the eight seamen who had followed him to that lonely volcanic outcrop, lost in the South Pacific vastness.
Lost, quite literally. Originally sighted by HMS Swallow a few years earlier, in 1767, the island was promptly named after the young officer who spotted it, charted on a map and forgotten.
Beautiful but doomed: Pitcairn's population is declining after it was rocked by a sex scandal
It was Christian, examining the charts kept by William Bligh, the captain he overthrew, who realised that Pitcairn had been incorrectly positioned 188 miles west of its true location. A perfect place to hide from a vengeful Royal Navy.
A little note of interest. After the famed 'Muntiny on the Bounty' occurred, the island was left on it's own. After years of seclusion, the islanders found a Bible and they tried to follow the rules of the Bible – including the Saturday Sabbath! They had no "education" of the Christian Sunday! They only had the Bible to guide them…
Each year, on January 23, the inhabitants of Pitcairn, Britain’s smallest colony, burn a model of His Majesty’s Armed Vessel Bounty. The ceremony, accompanied by cheering and singing, commemorates the sinking by fire of the ship in 1790.
Her demise, off the tiny bay that now carries her name, was, deliberate or not, a moment of no return for Acting Lieutenant Fletcher Christian and the eight seamen who had followed him to that lonely volcanic outcrop, lost in the South Pacific vastness.
Lost, quite literally. Originally sighted by HMS Swallow a few years earlier, in 1767, the island was promptly named after the young officer who spotted it, charted on a map and forgotten.
Beautiful but doomed: Pitcairn's population is declining after it was rocked by a sex scandal
It was Christian, examining the charts kept by William Bligh, the captain he overthrew, who realised that Pitcairn had been incorrectly positioned 188 miles west of its true location. A perfect place to hide from a vengeful Royal Navy.
