Hugh
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Over 200 years after Fletcher Christian put Captain Bligh in an open boat and sailed to Pitcairn Island the story is news again.
7 Men (half the adult male population) from the island which is reckoned to be the world's most remote inhabited island are on trial for having sex with underage girls, some as young as 12. the islanders say it is their tradition. Pitcairn is still a British possession and the trial is being run by New Zealand on our behalf.
Almost 80 % of the population has direct descendancy from the original mutineers, who after they abandoned Bligh (who was actually a Lieutenant) they called in a t tahiti to pick up their women and high tailed it to Pitcairn.
they were discovered some years later by an American Whaler, the only one left alive was John Adams, who introduced the sailors to Fletcher Christian s son, thursday Fletcher Christian.
7 Men (half the adult male population) from the island which is reckoned to be the world's most remote inhabited island are on trial for having sex with underage girls, some as young as 12. the islanders say it is their tradition. Pitcairn is still a British possession and the trial is being run by New Zealand on our behalf.
Almost 80 % of the population has direct descendancy from the original mutineers, who after they abandoned Bligh (who was actually a Lieutenant) they called in a t tahiti to pick up their women and high tailed it to Pitcairn.
they were discovered some years later by an American Whaler, the only one left alive was John Adams, who introduced the sailors to Fletcher Christian s son, thursday Fletcher Christian.