Pitcairn Island is celebrating the arrival of its newest resident, a baby girl who is the second child to be born on the remote island in the past 21 years.
Adrianna Tracey Christian, born on March 3, is Nadine Christian’s fourth child and a ninth generation descendant of Fletcher Christian, the Bounty mutineer who settled the Pacific island in 1790.
Because of the difficulty of getting medical treatment on the isolated, inaccessible island, for the past 21 years the island’s women – with the exception of Mrs Christian – have travelled to New Zealand to give birth, leaving Pitcairn six months into their pregnancy and making the long journey by boat and plane.
Adrianna’s father Randy was able to attend her birth, despite serving a prison sentence.
