One of the remotest places on earth, Pitcairn Island was spotted on this day in 1767 by 15-year old midshipman Robert Pitcairn, serving on HMS Swallow.

Pitcairn Island has a wild and picturesque coastline that's accessed by daunting scrambles along lava rock. Credit: Craig Tansley "I bet I've been to more places in Australia than you," Mason says ...

Pitcairn Island, a lump of rock situated roughly halfway between New Zealand and Chile, is probably the world's most remote inhabited spot. It has no airstrip, no safe harbour and no scheduled ...

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.

For 147 years after British mutineers colonized Pitcairn Island in 1790 the islanders had only occasional contact with the outside world through visiting boats. Last year the American Radio Relay ...

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 ...

Five men have been convicted of a string of sex attacks on the remote Pacific island of Pitcairn. The men, including the island's mayor Steve Christian, had faced dozens of charges including rape and ...

Made famous by the mutiny on the HMS Bounty, Pitcairn Island is the most remote inhabited island in the world. A Sunnyvale retiree recently went there.

In 2004, the tiny Pacific island of Pitcairn was torn apart when seven men were put on trial for sexually abusing children. In her gripping new book, Kathy Marks, who covered the story for The ...