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# Bring back Bligh!. A comment from a Salon blog. There seems to be sort of idea that 'centuries of inbreeding' occurred on Pitcairn but this is not the case. If you look a the Bounty Genealogy pages it shows that there were other people appearing on the island that contributed to the genepool. In the 'Friends of Pitcairn' files section there is a 'Pitcairn Genetics' document that describes how close inbreeding was avoided. Some snippets from that document:

First of all, the community started with a VERY diverse, albeit small, gene pool consisting of women from three different islands, and 6 mutineers from widely differing parts of England, Scotland, and the Caribbean. (An American and a Frenchman were also there, but did not have children.)

In the first five generations on the island, only one marriage occurred between people who had 50% of their ancestors in common (the equivalent of most first cousins).

# The cultural tradition of oppressing women.

It's probably almost always true that finally paying attention to some violation of human rights causes hardships somewhere in the society. After all, we build our societal systems brick by brick, and if one of these bricks is drawn out, the ones above it will collapse. Does this mean that we should just accept sexism as an inherent part of traditions and not address it?

# World will keep an eye on Pitcairn.

In New Zealand and other parts of the world the trial on Pitcairn Island has been followed with a sense of fascination and horror. Fascination because anything to do with that lonely refuge of the Bounty mutineers has its own fascination, and horror because, while the sexual abuse of young girls is sickening enough anywhere, it seems particularly frightful in such a tiny, enclosed community.

# Pitcairn culture shackled in a time-warp.

# 'Tip of the Iceberg'.

Further sexual abuse charges involving Britain's remote Pacific colony of Pitcairn Island are expected to be laid following guilty verdicts on six men, the lead prosecutor said on Tuesday.

# Sex trials will change Pitcairn forever .

As six Pitcairn men convicted of generations of sex crimes await sentencing, observers say life on the remote Pacific outpost will never be the same again. They say the old culture of sex abuse has gone and the island will survive - but with a new notoriety.

# Pitcairn trial a miscarriage of justice, says former islander.

A former Pitcairn islander said today the six men found guilty of sex charges against underage girls were the victims of a gross miscarriage of justice.

# Robinson Crusoe's Children. A 1928 article on Pitcairn.

he Strange Story of Nine English Mutineers Who, More Than a Hundred Years Ago, Took Up Their Abode With Their Native Tahitian Wives, on a Desert Island in the South Seasu2014The Life and Heredity of the Descendants of These First Settlers on Pitcairn and Norfolk Islands