Pitcairn Island, Home of Descendents of Bounty Mutineers
The Pitcairn Islands are most famous for their inhabitants: the descendents of bounty mutineers and the Tahitians who accompanied them. In 1790, the mutineers of the Bounty and their Tahitian companions, some of whom may have been kidnapped, settled on Pitcairn Island and set fire to the Bounty.
Which can still be seen underwater in Bounty Bay. Most of the mutineers and Tahitian men were killed by alcoholism, disease and murder while the rest of the population went on to live relatively peacefully. The Pitcairn Islands became a British colony in 1838 and are now the last British overseas territory in the Pacific.
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