Pitcairn Island, one of King Charles III’s tiniest and most remote outposts, is marking the new monarch’s accession with a ceremony Sunday. Iona Thomas, recently appointed as governor of Pitcairn, ...

AFTER four nights at sea on a pitching and rolling ship, the announcement over the Tannoy is the sound of sweet relief. “Land ahoy!” I get dressed and lurch out onto the foredeck. If it really is ahoy ...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand -- Pitcairn Island, home to the descendants of the mutineers of the Bounty, has no airport, no doctor, no supermarket and just 47 inhabitants. But the new century has caught up ...

Pitcairn Island is a place so remote, and with a history so bizarre, that until recently it was viewed almost as myth rather than reality. But the “myth” of this tiny island in the Pacific Ocean was, ...

The founding of Pitcairn Island is steeped in mystery and romance. As the subject of five major movie productions, the story of the mutiny on the Bounty and the events after have been fictionalized, ...

A group of four volcanic islands in the southern Pacific Ocean, Pitcairn islands are amongst the most remote in the world, lying approximately halfway between New Zealand and the Americas and to the ...

One thing above all others the British Navy was slow to forgive: mutiny. Though Pitcairn Island had become a British colony in 1893, British ships still shunned the faraway, surf-swept island where ...

Pitcairn Island, one of the world’s most isolated, storied, and fascinating communities has doubled its Internet access to 512kbps, to be shared among its 48 residents. The island, of course, is home ...