September 30, 2004
Has anybody ever heard about this place? Apparently, the people who caused the mutiny on the ship HMS Bounty (chronicled, appropriately enough, in Mutiny on the Bounty) all settled on Pitcairn Island in 1790. Fast forward to today, and there are still only 17 families living there, all descendents of the original mutineers. They speak their own language, a mix of Tahitian and 18th century English. Apparently, they have their own sort of laws and customs that put one in a mind of pirate ethics, if recent charges of rape and sexual contact with 12 year old girls are correct. I had no idea that there were still places in this world so remote that you have to take a 36 hour boat ride from the nearest airport (itself in outlying Tahiti). Stories like this make me realize that the world is fucking big. It must be trippy to live your life in a tropical paradise and only really contact 46 other people (if you don't count occasional cruise ships).
Take a look at the picture on their site. Does that mother look like she has a black eye?
From iHand's link:
What happens when you get to pick the names for parts of the island? You get names like Timiti's Crack, Breakim Hip, Oh Dear, and Ned Young's Ground.
That place is unreal.... How do the people living there not have serious birth defects yet? Well, of course maybe their defects are all mental...
Acrobat 3.0 required to view PDF of map of island!!
Come on, Ben, just because the Pitcairners have their own internet domain doesn't mean that they're running faster than dialup. Do you know how long it would take to download Adobe 6 with a 9600 baud modem?
so, other than noting that nate needs to update the month indicator so it realizes that it is october, not september...i was wondering why i had heard of this wacky place and it is that (i think) i read an article recently about how they're (they = pitcairnese) a little pissed off about the prospect of aussies, or more properly, brits, meddling in their affairs. they have run the island quite well alone, they think, despite no sewage or roads. wait, no sewage? maybe they are more advanced.
Hey, how about that? September. Huh.
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Also, those 47 people live on an island almost exactly the size of San Marcos. The men on trial comprise half of the island's male population. This is just blowing my mind for some reason.
posted by natedogg at 09:34AM CST on September 30