Perhaps the first definitive evidence of the island actually being considered a British possession came in 1898, when Harry Christian – the great-great-grandson of Fletcher – was prosecuted under English law for killing Clara Warren and her child. Pitcairn Island has a population of only 56 inhabitants comprising of the four families. Watch the three-part Britain's Treasure Islands documentary series on BBC FOUR, starting Tue 12 Apr 2016 21:00. PitcairnIsland comprises of four volcanic islands in the South Pacific Ocean. They want to attract young, able-bodied couples with young children who’ll be … Ships still call, and some limited trade still takes place, but these events are as a ‘punctuation mark in the endlessly empty calendar of Pitcairn.’ The islanders are marooned in history, lost in ‘the half-world to which they were committed’ by Fletcher Christian ‘in the days of George III.’. : 59); indeed, from the date of first settlement until the notorious sex abuse trials of 2004 there had been ‘no effective civil authority presence on the island’ at all (Oliver 2009: 11). . The islanders were first rediscovered in 1808 by an American ship, the Topaz, and their first contact with Britain came in 1814, when they were chanced upon by HMS Briton and HMS Tagus; at this time the population was around 40 people, being lead by George Adams, the last survivor of the original mutineers (Ball 1973: 104-19; Lewis 2009: 43-4).
Pitcairn Island was settled by the descendants of the mutineers who commandeered the HMS Bounty in 1789. Before World War II the population was at a peak height of 200. Tahitians. As Pitcairn’s immigration website itself says, “Life on Pitcairn will not be for everyone.” The government of this little volcanic outcropping is looking for a very specific kind of people. Pitcairn Island in 1962 was an exceedingly remote place inhabited by a very small number of people – just 128, according to The Pitcairn People ’s commentary – almost all of whom were descended from a handful of Fletcher Christian’s famous Bounty mutineers and the few Tahitians that Christian and his men took with them from Tahiti to Pitcairn in 1790. However, subsequent central administration was minimal, if it could be said to exist at all. Pitcairn Island is a two-square-mile rock 3,000 miles off the coast of New Zealand.
. Regular slow tracking shots impassively and equally capture both people (who are often posed motionlessly) and the luxuriant vegetation of the island scenery, generating a pervasive sense of unreality. Francis Gooding, Patrick Russell (Dec 09), Lewis, Andrew ‘Pitcairn’s Tortured Past: A Legal History’ in Oliver ed. With Patrick Wymark. Pitcairn nominally became part of the British Empire in November 1838, when the inhabitants, weary of the liberties taken with them by the crews of passing whalers, petitioned Captain Elliot of the HMS Flyto take the island under the protection of the British Crown. An insight of the life of the Pacific islanders and their reaction to modern life. : 39); most of the crew indeed returned to the island after the ship was commandeered, with only Christian and a few others striking out for Pitcairn. (repeated Wed 13 Apr 2016 20:00). Javascript support is currently disabled on your browser. ‘On the island,’ narrator Wymark observes, ‘there are mostly those who long to go, and those for who have given up the dream,’ and to illustrate those who have abandoned thought of escape, we are shown an old man dozing in the sun. The Pitcairn Islands are an isolated territory in the middle of the ocean — only 48 people live there, and you have to travel there by boat. Thenceforward there were occasional visits from British ships. Imaginatively shot and intelligently narrated. This proverbially easy South Seas life is reprised in cruel parody on modern Pitcairn, and the narration picks up this unhappy irony: ‘Pitcairn is no paradise of languor and tranquillity – it is either dull or desperate.’ The popular myth of the South Seas is invoked and then turned on its head, as the dominant theme of the film emerges: the isolation, boredom and emptiness of life in what the narrator early on calls ‘oblivion.’, To be sure, there is hard work to do – there is still only one place to land a boat and doing so is still dangerous, still only one source of meat (wild goats), and everything heavy and difficult must still be manhandled and hauled by communal effort. A constitution was written and signed on board the Fly, and Elliot’s naval superiors commended him for his action. For around ten years after this first settlement the tiny island’s history was one of…. (repeated Wed 13 Apr 2016 20:00). Fewer people know that Pitcairn Island is a British Overseas Territory, one of four small, diverse and unique islands which encompass a large exclusive economic zone, its pristine waters home to many endemic species, and protected since September 2016 by the world’s second-largest Marine Protected Area (836,000 km2). cit: 88-9; Lewis op. The Act had given the British authorities power to establish laws and institutions of governance in any British settlement where they were deemed necessary, and so ‘from 1898,’ writes Lewis, ‘there could be little doubt but that Pitcairn was a British settlement in the eyes, at least, of the British government’ (ibid.
Untouched subtropical island environments, pristine waters, endemic flora, bird and marine life, an unforgettable sea voyage, incredible hospitality, lasting friendships and firsthand insight into the living history and culture of the people of Pitcairn Island - the direct descendants of Pitcairn's first European settlers, the HMAV Bounty mutineers, and their Polynesian consorts. Today, the community on Pitcairn consists of around 50 people who have fascinating history, culture and customs. In this film, we visit Pitcairn Island to meet the islanders and discover life on one of the world's most remote inhabited islands. 2009: 1-21, Oliver, DawnJ ustice, Legality, and the Rule of Law: Lessons from the Pitcairn Prosecutions(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009). Cet article concerne l'archipel de l'océan Pacifique. Directed by Peter Newington. • Ned Young (c.1762–1800 in Pitcairn), mutineer from the famous HMS Bounty incident, and co-founder of the mutineers' Pitcairn Island settlement.
2009: 39-61, Oliver, Dawn ‘Problems on Pitcairn’ in Oliver ed. Polynesians or the Island people were the first to settle on Pitcairn Island. Seule Pitcairn est habitée de manière permanente, avec une population d'une cinquantaine d'habitants appartenant à neuf familles, ce qui en fait l'entité politique la moins peuplée du monde. The Pitcairn Islands extends over several miles of the ocean and covers an area of 47 square kilometers. La dernière modification de cette page a été faite le 17 juillet 2020 à 17:02.
Out of the four, only Pitcairn Island is hospitable while the other three host species of plants … The Colonial Office, however, did not see how Pitcairn could be helped, incorporated into the Empire, or governed, and the next official intervention was in 1856, when the entire population was relocated to Norfolk Island, an ex-penal colony (Lewis 2009: 53-4). These islands form the Pitcairn Islands, and they are part of the last British Overseas Territories in the Pacific. En tant qu'entité administrative, son nom officiel en anglais est Pitcairn, Henderson, Ducie and Oeno Islands. Pour son île principale, voir, car il n'y a pas de sources de pollution dans l'île, « Gross Domestic Product (GDP) .
The island was almost wholly neglected by the metropole, and Lewis notes that for the duration of the twentieth century ‘only one Governor of Pitcairn…ever visited the territory for which he was responsible’ (ibid. Pitcairn Islanders, also referred to as Pitkerners and Pitcairnese, are the inhabitants or citizens of the Pitcairn Islands.The Pitcairn Islands are a British Overseas Territory, mainly inhabited by Euronesians of British and Tahitian descent.. : 57). NZ$217,000 (2005/06 indicative estimate) and NZ$4,340 per capita (based on 50 residents) », Rob Solomon and Kirsty Burnett (January 2014), Pitcairn Island: Same Sex Marriage and Civil Partnership Ordinance 2015, "Pitcairn Island, an idyll haunted by its past", "Pitcairn Island Immigration Questions and Answers", Pitcairn Islands Repopulation Plan 2014–2019, "South Pacific Island of 'Mutiny on the Bounty' Fame Running Out of People", Site officiel du gouvernement des Îles Pitcairn, Site en français du miel des Îles Pitcairn, Géorgie du Sud-et-les îles Sandwich du Sud, Sainte-Hélène, Ascension et Tristan da Cunha, Dépendances, territoires à souveraineté spéciale et territoires ultramarins, Terres australes et antarctiques françaises, Portail des Territoires britanniques d'outre-mer, https://fr.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Îles_Pitcairn&oldid=173011986, Article contenant un appel à traduction en anglais, Catégorie Commons avec lien local identique sur Wikidata, Portail:Territoires britanniques d'outre-mer/Articles liés, licence Creative Commons attribution, partage dans les mêmes conditions, comment citer les auteurs et mentionner la licence, Possession sous l'autorité directe du gouvernement français. In order to watch this video you need to enable Javascript. For around ten years after this first settlement the tiny island’s history was one of chaos and bloodshed, after which a period of relative calm set in. Now less than 50 people live there. Wallis-et-Futuna (France). Lee Abbamonte explores off-the-beaten-path places. It has been argued that the hope of a return to the happy and easy living that the Bounty’s crew experienced on Tahiti while Captain Bligh rested there for nearly six months may have triggered the mutiny (cf. The People of Pitcairn Island The majority of Pitcairn Islanders are descended from the nine mutineers of His Majesty’s Armed Vessel Bounty who, led by Fletcher Christian, landed on unihabited Pitcairn Island in 1790 with six Polynesian men, twelve Polynesian women, and an infant girl. Un article de Wikipédia, l'encyclopédie libre. In this installment, he travels to tiny Pitcairn Island in the South Pacific, to photograph a landscape where only about 50 people live.