Pitcairn Islands, located in the South Pacific Ocean, hold the title of the least populated country in the world, with only ...

She noted that “on Pitcairn, you are everything — the plumber, the electrician, the mechanic, the builder. Living on an island so remote you have to learn all these trades to be able to live.” ...

and their descendants live there to this day. To most, the Pitcairn Islands seem entirely uninhabitable, with huge volcanic formations jutting out and almost no feasible place to dock a boat.

Consisting of four separate tiny islands, Pitcairn, Henderson ... and the people who live there today are descended from the mutineers. The islands are extremely detached from anywhere else ...

He holds the record for the longest stint on Pitcairn without a break and that's fairly serious island time when you consider he lives on a five-square-kilometre volcanic outcrop barely four ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. After being cast adrift in a small open boat somewhere off the coast of Samoa on April 28 1789, Lieutenant ...

For 147 years after British mutineers colonized Pitcairn Island in 1790 the islanders had only occasional contact with the outside world through visiting boats. Last year the American Radio Relay ...