Pitcairn
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Pitcairn Island was discovered in 1767 by the British and settled in
1790 by the Bounty mutineers and their Tahitian companions. Pitcairn
was the first Pacific island to become a British colony (in 1838) and
today remains the last vestige of that empire in the South Pacific.
Outmigration, primarily to New Zealand, has thinned the population from
a peak of 233 in 1937 to less than 50 today.
Britain's most isolated dependency ...

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