The Pitcairn Islands, officially named Pitcairn, Henderson, Ducie, and Oeno Islands, are a group of four islands, in the southern Pacific Ocean that are the last remaining British overseas territory in the Pacific.
The original settlers of the Pitcairn and Henderson for several centuries were Polynesians. However, although archaeologists believe that Polynesians were living on Pitcairn as late as the 15th Century, the islands were uninhabited when they were discovered on July 3, 1767 by the crew of the British sloop HMS Swallow. Pitcairn was named after Midshipman Robert Pitcairn, a 15 year old crewmember who was the first to sight it. In 1790 the mutineers of HMAV Bounty and their Tahitian companions, some of whom may have been kidnapped from Tahiti, settled on Pitcairn Island and set fire to the Bounty. Although
the survivors were able to survive by farming and fishing the initial period of settlement was marked by serious tensions among the settlers. Now Pitcairn is inhabited with less than 50 people. The largest population was in 1937 with 233 people. Presently the islanders have no harbor for ships so they come to the ship in their long boat and be board for three hours to sell their wares. Most of their last names are Christian. The ship played the movie "The Bounty" for us.
