Sentence examples for pitcairn from inspiring English sources

Leaders of the community proposed mass emigration to Tahiti or to Australia, but after the islanders had been resettled on Tahiti (1831), many grew dissatisfied and returned to Pitcairn.

The British ship HMS Swallow found the island in 1767, and its captain, Philip Carteret, named it Pitcairn for the sailor who first sighted it.

He is credited with having imported the first battery lights and refrigerators to Pitcairn, as well as motorcycles.

In 1971 Maurice Bligh, great-great-great-grandson of the Bounty's captain, paid a visit to Pitcairn, and the two became friends, meeting again in 2005.

In recent years he and his wife Betty, whom he married in 1966, moved into the computer age with a website promoting tourism to the island and produce including Pitcairn stamps, baskets, curiosities carved of wood, and honey.

It is the only inhabited island of the British overseas territory of Pitcairn, Henderson, Ducie, and Oeno Islands, which is commonly referred to as the Pitcairn Islands or as Pitcairn.

There are 14: Akrotiri and Dhekelia (Cyprus); Anguilla; Bermuda; British Antarctic Territory; British Indian Ocean Territory; British Virgin Islands Cayman Islands Falkland Islandsds; Gibraltar; Montserrat; Pitcairn Islands; Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha; South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands; Turks and Caicos Islands.

Her husband, Ric Robinson, a descendant of the immigrants from Pitcairn Island, and John Christian, a descendant of Fletcher Christian, the mutineers' leader, are among a group campaigning for self-determination.

The Pitcairn Islands, which lie roughly half way between New Zealand and Peru, are home to about 50 people; Bermuda, the most populous of the Territories, has only about 65,000 residents.

Robert Hughes, a historian of convict Australia, described the penal system as "the pit that England had created...whose very bottom was Norfolk Island".In 1856, after the convict settlement closed, descendants of the Bounty mutineers moved from Pitcairn Island to Norfolk Island.

In the early 1990s, Tim Benton, a scientist visiting the Pitcairn Islands (four dots in the Pacific Ocean 5,000 miles east of Australia), was struck by the rubbish washed up on the beaches.