A series of sex abuse trials opened on Pitcairn Island, the isolated British territory in the Pacific that is home to descendants of the 18th-century HMS Bounty mutineers. The first alleged victim ...

Pitcairn Island looks like a paradise cut off from the modern world. But extreme isolation turned it into a closed system where silence mattered more than accountability. Over generations, harmful ...

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, ...

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 ...

THE tropical Pitcairn islands are home to less than 50 people – almost all of whom are related to some of history’s most notorious mutineers. Since the 18th Century, Pitcairn has been a remote outpost ...

Back in 1789, British sailors in the Pacific mutinied on the HMS Bounty and settled on Tahiti and Pitcairn Island. While the mutineers on Tahiti were later arrested by the British, those on Pitcairn ...

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 ...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Pitcairn Island, a tiny speck in the Pacific that’s home to just 48 people, has passed a law allowing same-sex marriage — but has no gay couples wanting to wed. First ...

THE tropical Pitcairn islands are home to less than 50 people – almost all of whom are related to some of history’s most notorious mutineers. Since the 18th Century, Pitcairn has been a remote outpost ...