The museum also exhibits artefacts from the HMS Bounty, which was sailed to to the island in 1790 with a crew of just under 30, who, led by Fletcher Christian, aimed to find the island.

Herb Ford, at the Pitcairn Islands Study Center which houses an extensive collection of books on the HMS Bounty, on the campus of Pacific Union College on Wednesday Dec. 18, 2013, in Angwin, Ca.

On Pitcairn Island, a tiny, wooded, steep, ... The visitor was Harry Lionel Shapiro, 32-year-old anthropologist of Manhattan’s American Museum of Natural History. Dr.

The island is part of the larger Pitcairn Islands, which includes the uninhabited Henderson, Ducie, and Oeno Islands. They form the UK’s sole overseas territory in the Pacific Ocean.

When we spoke he was managing the museum but he’d really come to Pitcairn to open a diving business. He’d brought money and ideas to the island, but in 15 months he’d found it hard to fit in.

Museum scientists joined a six-week voyage to understand more about the fragile and rarely studied environments surrounding these islands. ... British Antarctic Territory, Pitcairn Islands, British ...

The Pitcairn Museum of Contemporary Art wants to provide a platform for Contemporary Artists from home and abroad. Each exhibition is specially made for our museum and therefore unique. Our space is ...

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 ...