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# World Statesmen information on Pitcairn. Includes a chronology and list of governers and magistrates over time.

# According to the anthems web page, Pitcairn's anthem back in 1870 was reported to be a local poem.

# The Mouth utters a guilty plea.

'YOU have no shame,' said Dave 'The Mouth' Brown to journalists photographing him yesterday - then he went into Pitcairn Island Supreme Court and pleaded guilty to molesting two underage girls.

# DNA 'Bounty' sought on Island.

Australian scientists hope the DNA of descendants of the mutinous crew of the Bounty who live on tiny, isolated Norfolk Island will give them a genetic clue to heart disease.

# Utopian Themes in The Island. There are some great reference links there as well. Text of 'The Island' available here.

Byron wrote The Island about the band of mutineers who settled on Pitcairnu2019s Island in the South Pacific after commandeering the HMS Bounty from the hands of Captain Bligh.

# Lewis Monto's Landfalls for Pitcairn's Island. Lewis Monto was a Nantucket Whaler who kept journals of voyages between 1827 and 1834.

# A song of Pitcairn's Island, by William Cullen Bryant.

# Can Pitcairn survive scandal? .

The trickier question is whether Pitcairn's spirit and soul can survive the trauma. Can a community where men have allegedly been preying on children for generations move on and rebuild itself on healthier foundations?

# This PDF, along with other interesting information, has a table showing the population of Pitcairn over a 66 year period. From 200 residents in 1936 to 96 in 1966 and down to 48 in 2002.

# Notes from a small island. A great article about the Pitcairn Miscellany.

Pitcairn's reputation isn't what it was in 1994, when another HMS Bounty mutiny buff tipped me off to the Miscellany , then costing US$8 (HK$62) a year. The price has just been raised to US$15, and it's also available via Internet for US$10. But I like getting my Miscellany the old-fashioned way.

# Fears child-sex crimes will be end of Pitcairn.

"The men who are in court, they are the viable men, they are the ones who crew the longboats, they maintain the machinery, they work on the roads. What will we do if they are locked up?

# Second Pitcairn islander pleads guilty to sex abuse charges.

He has changed his plea on three counts, but is still pleading not guilty to several other charges of gross indecency and indecent assault.

# Second Pitcairn defendant pleads guilty .

Dave Brown, 49, the island's tractor driver, changed his plea to guilty on charges that he twice indecently assaulted girls as he gave them rides on his quad bike and a third indecent assault when he put his hand down a girl's bikini bottom as they swam at an island beach, Radio New Zealand news reported.

# Pitcairn magistrate in the dock.

But now Warren is in the dock, charged with indecently assaulting a 12-year-old girl in 1983, when he was 27.