Pitcairn Island

The Dominion Post: 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…

Reuters: LONDON: Britain will send jailers to Pitcairn Island after six men – a 10th of the island’s population – lost their final appeal against convictions for child rape and indecent assault. The British colony – the world’s least-populated legal jurisdiction – is home to descendants of crew from the Bounty, who settled there with Tahitian wives in 1790 after a legendary high-seas mutiny. A British Foreign Office spokesman said seven New Zealand prison officers would be dispatched to establish…