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	Pitcairn Islands - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The Pitcairn Islands form the southeasternmost extension of the geological archipelago of the Tuamotus of French Polynesia, and consist of five islands: Pitcairn Island, Sandy Island, Oeno Island, Henderson Island, and Ducie Island.
		Pitcairn is a volcanic island, and Ducie and Oeno are coral atolls.
		The settlers of the Pitcairns all arrived by some form of boat or ship; the most famous was the HMS Bounty, on which the mutiny occurred and which was burned in Bounty Bay.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Pitcairn (1448 words)

	Pitcairn Islands - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		Pitcairn was the son of British Revolutionary War Marine Officer John Pitcairn, who was second in command of British forces stationed in Massachusetts during the American Revolutionary War.
		Captain Pitcairn was fatally wounded in one of the most defining battles of the war, the Battle of Bunker Hill on June 17, 1775.
		The settlers of the Pitcairns all arrived by some form of boat or ship; the most famous was the HMAV Bounty, on which the mutiny occurred and which was burned in Bounty Bay.
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Pitcairn_Islands (1724 words)

	Wikinfo \| Pitcairn sexual assault trial of 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		In a judgement delivered on 18 April 2004, the Pitcairn Islands Supreme Court (specially established for the purpose of the trial, consisting of New Zealand judges authorized by the British government) rejected the claim that Pitcairn was not British territory.
		This decision was upheld in August 2004 by the Pitcairn Court of Appeal, endorsing the claim of Deputy Governor Matthew Forbes that Pitcairn was indeed British territory.
		On 28 September 2004, Olive Christian, wife of the accused Mayor, daughter of Len Brown and mother of postmaster Randy Christian, both of whom are also among those accused, called a meeting of thirteen of the island's women, representing three generations at her home, Big Fence, to "defend" the island's menfolk.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Pitcairn_sexual_assault_trial_of_2004 (4804 words)

	Int News 1st October 2004 \| OneinFour.org (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		PITCAIRN ISLAND: The trial of seven Pitcairn Island men, descendants of the 18th-century Bounty mutineers, began on the remote Pacific Ocean island yesterday, with the mayor the first to face charges of rape and underage sex.
		Pitcairn, the last British territory in the Pacific, with a population of just 47, is a five sq km outcrop about halfway between New Zealand and Panama.
		Mr Christian was 15 when he allegedly raped a 12-year-old as two other boys held her down under some banyan trees, the prosecution told the court.
	www.oneinfour.org /news/intnews2004/pitcairntrial (437 words)

	Pitcairn Islands - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Pitcairn Islands (Pitkern : Pitkern Ailen), officially named the Pitcairn, Henderson, Ducie, and Oeno Islands, are a group of four islands in the southern Pacific Ocean.
		The Pitcairn Islands form the southeasternmost extension of the geological archipelago of the Tuamotus of French Polynesia, and consist of four islands: Pitcairn Island, Oeno Island (atoll with 5 islets), Henderson Island and Ducie Island (atoll with 4 islets).
		Main article: Transport in the Pitcairn Islands The settlers of the Pitcairns all arrived by some form of boat or ship; the most famous was the HMAV Bounty, on which the mutiny occurred and which was burned in Bounty Bay.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pitcairn (2139 words)

	Pitcairn Islands
		Up to 30 October 2004, the Mayor was Steve Christian; in the wake of his rape conviction on October 24 2004, he was dismissed after refusing to resign.
		Pitcairn and Henderson are volcanic islands, and Ducie and Oeno are coral atolls.
		The settlers of the Pitcairns all arrived by some form of boat or ship; the most famous was the HMS Bounty, on which the mutiny occurred and which was burned down in Bounty Bay.
	207.150.180.135 /Pitcairn_Islands (1076 words)

	Mutineers' descendants face rape charges - The Washington Times: World - October 01, 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The defendants, led by Pitcairn Mayor Steve Christian, make up nearly half the adult male population among the island's 47 residents, and their defense is that consensual underage sex involving girls as young as 12 has become a tradition in Pitcairn over the past two centuries and more.
		The trial is being staged in the island's ramshackle community hall in its solitary settlement, Adamstown, but the eight purported victims identified in the 55 sex charges are thousands of miles away in New Zealand, where they are testifying via video link.
		Christian, who faces six charges of rape and four of indecent assault, is a direct descendant of Fletcher Christian, who led the "Mutiny on the Bounty" — a revolt in which mutineers seized control of the British vessel HMS Bounty in 1789.
	washingtontimes.com /world/20040930-100333-8122r.htm (680 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| The Guardian \| Mayor among accused in Pitcairn rape trial
		The mayor of Pitcairn Island was the first of seven men accused of sex abuse to stand trial yesterday as the historic case got under way in the Pacific outpost.
		The trial is only the second to have taken place under British law in the 214-year history of Pitcairn, an island halfway between New Zealand and Chile.
		Christian was 15 when he was alleged to have raped a 12-year-old as two other boys held her down amid some banyan trees, the court was told.
	www.guardian.co.uk /international/story/0,3604,1316248,00.html (568 words)

	Mayor of Pitcairn stands trial for sex crimes Asian Political News - Find Articles
		The mayor of the remote Pacific island Pitcairn was the first of seven male islanders to stand trial for sex crimes committed against local girls and women over the past 40 years, the Sydney Morning Herald reported Thursday.
		Christian was 15 when it was alleged he raped a 12-year-old girl as two other boys held her down amid some banyan trees, the court heard.
		Pitcairn is a 5-square-kilometer island lying halfway between New Zealand and Chile.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0WDQ/is_2004_Oct_4/ai_n6282972 (595 words)

	Pitcairn Islands (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		It was annexed by Britain on 19th December 1902, and in 1938 it was formally incorporated into Pitcairn to become part of a single administrative district (the "Pitcairn Group of Islands").
		Pitcairn Island itself was discovered on July 3, 1767 by the crew of the British sloop HMS Swallow, commanded by Captain Philip Carteret (though according to some it had perhaps been visited by Quiros in 1606).
		(The Pitcairners would later convert to Adventism after a successful Adventist mission in the 1890s.) When the British visited Pitcairn again in 1814, they were impressed with the emerging society and the example of leadership given by Adams.
	www.tocatch.info /en/Pitcairn_Islands.htm (2086 words)

	The Bounty, Pitcairn Island, and Fletcher Christian's Descendants
		Living on a 1¾ square mile volcanic speck in the South Pacific that is surely one of the most isolated places on Earth, the contemporary Pitcairn Islanders still bear the surnames of the eighteenth century mutineers (Tom Christian, for example, is the great-great-great-grandson of Fletcher).
		Pitcairn's coordinates are 25 04 S, 130 06 W. After the mutiny, Christian and his sailors returned to Tahiti, where sixteen of the twenty-five men decided to remain for good.
		There are individuals and organizations around the world devoted to the Pitcairners, their genealogy, and the history of the mutiny (the genealogical tree extends to 7,500 known descendants throughout the world).
	www.infoplease.com /spot/pitcairn.html (1781 words)

	6 Guilty of Sex Abuse on Pitcairn Island
		Pitcairn Island mayor, Steve Christian, is seen in this image from television Monday Oct. 25, 2004 in Adamstown, Pitcairn Island after leaving court.
		During one of the trials, prosecutor Christine Gordon said Dave Brown assaulted one girl in the island's Seventh-day Adventist Church and another during a fishing trip along the island's rugged coast.
		Pitcairn, lying midway between Peru and New Zealand, has long fascinated the world for being the refuge of the men who mutinied aboard the Bounty and cast Capt. William Bligh adrift with his supporters in 1789.
	www.comcast.net /data/news/2004/10/25/12151.xml (840 words)

	Pitcairn sexual assault trial of 2004 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		On 28 September 2004, Olive Christian, wife of the accused Mayor, daughter of Len Brown and mother of Randy Christian, both of whom are also among those accused, called a meeting of thirteen of the island's women, representing three generations at her home, Big Fence, to "defend" the island's menfolk.
		Betty Christian, the Island Secretary, broke ranks with many of her fellow Pitcairners, testifying at the Pitcairn Supreme Court hearing in Papakura that the islanders were indeed aware that they were British subjects and that British law was applicable to them.
		Christian, whose alleged offences (three rapes) are said to have happened between 1994 and 1996, is the younger son of former Mayor Steve Christian.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pitcairn_sexual_assault_trial_of_2004 (5476 words)

	Sex trial threatens Pitcairn Island. 22/09/2004. ABC News Online
		A high-profile sex abuse trial which opens this week is threatening the future of Pitcairn Island, the remote British Pacific colony founded by the Bounty mutineers more than 200 years ago.
		The island's Mayor has warned that the trial is having devastating consequences on the tiny community, which was founded in 1790 by Fletcher Christian, leader of the infamous mutiny on the HMS Bounty.
		The charges, which a re said to include sexual assault and rape and to involve minors, stem from a complaint laid in 1999 by a Pitcairn woman.
	www.abc.net.au /news/newsitems/200409/s1204951.htm (639 words)

	Synthstuff - music, photography and more...: Pitcairn Island
		Yesterday, a group of 13 Pitcairn women called a press conference to support the accused and to suggest that sex with adolescents is part of Pitcairn's history, and that such consensual acts were common.
		The women worry that if the seven accused are locked up, life on Pitcairn would become impossible: The island has no harbour, so the men are required to sail longboats through treacherous waters to receive supplies from, and trade with, passing ships.
		Pitcairn is often called the world's most remote inhabited place.
	www.synthstuff.com /mt/archives/individual/2004/09/pitcairn_island.html (415 words)

	PITCAIRN MAYOR GETS THREE YEARS FOR RAPES - October 29, 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The 53-year-old Christian, among six Pitcairn men convicted of raping or sexually abusing children over a period of decades on the isolated island, was convicted on Sunday.
		Defense attorneys had argued in final submissions yesterday that jail terms for the men would strip Pitcairn of its tiny population of able-bodied men and hamper vital services, such as ferrying passengers and cargo to and from the island’s only dock.
		Testimony during the trial described Christian as a ringleader among a group of men on Pitcairn who freely abducted and raped girls as young as 12 years old.
	archives.pireport.org /archive/2004/october/10-29-01.htm (276 words)

	Rape Routine On Pitcairn Island - Witness
		Former residents of Pitcairn yesterday painted a picture of a community in which young girls were used as sexual playthings and rape and violence were a way of life.
		Steve Christian, Pitcairn's mayor, is in the first batch, and one of his alleged victims told the court yesterday that he tried to drag her out of her tent and have sex with her during a trip to Oeno, an uninhabited island in the Pitcairn group.
		The woman, who grew up in the British dependent territory settled by the Bounty mutineers, also claimed that Christian came to her house and tried to get into bed with her while his wife, Olive, was giving birth.
	www.rense.com /general57/pitca.htm (273 words)

	Sex trial on Pitcairn Island nearing end
		Judges hearing the sex abuse trials on Pitcairn Island in the South Pacific, are due to retire to consider their verdicts.
		One woman told the court she was raped as a 10-year-old but did not feel she could tell anybody.
		Pitcairn is the last British colony in the Pacific and has a population of just 47 permanent residents.
	www.cbc.ca /story/world/national/2004/10/20/pitcairn04102-.html (1206 words)

	BBC NEWS \| World \| Asia-Pacific \| Six guilty in Pitcairn sex trial
		The eight women who testified in the trial and who now live in New Zealand had welcomed the verdict, TV New Zealand quoted a police officer as saying.
		Some defendants had argued consensual underage sex with girls aged 12 and 13 was traditional on the remote island, a UK colony which lies roughly half way between Peru and New Zealand in the South Pacific.
		A jail had to be built on the island in preparation for the trial's outcome.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/asia-pacific/3950033.stm (728 words)

	Taipei Times - archives (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		During the trials, prosecutors had painted a picture of a male-dominated society in which underage sex was commonplace.
		Before the trials even started, women living on the island came out in defense of their men, saying that while underage sex did happen, it was consensual.
		The Pitcairn Islands are a group of five rocky volcanic outcrops in the Pacific Ocean midway between New Zealand and Peru.
	www.taipeitimes.com /News/world/archives/2004/10/26/2003208470 (1002 words)

	Purse Lip Square Jaw: September 2004
		Pitcairn Island - midway between Peru and New Zealand in the South Pacific - is home to the descendents of the HMS Bounty mutineers and local Polynesians, with a fascinating history of British intervention and governance that continues to this day.
		Of the less than 50 current residents, seven men (including the mayor) are now on trial for sexual abuse, ranging from indecent assault to the rape of a five-year-old girl.
		Now, here's the part that interests me: according to the BBC and the ABC, the charges stem from 1999, when an islander told a visiting British policewoman she had been sexually abused.
	www.purselipsquarejaw.org /2004_09_01_blogger_archives.php (10503 words)

	Nelson's Weblog: culture / pitcairnIsland
		I just finished reading Serpent in Paradise, the narrative of an Englishwoman who went to Pitcairn pursuing her fantasies of island paradise only to find cold loneliness as an outsider in a complex, tiny, isolated society.
		Pitcairn is in the news a lot now, the result of child rape charges against most of the adult men on the island.
		where the trial will be held, and of course the question of what punishment means in such a tiny community.
	www.somebits.com /weblog/culture/pitcairnIsland.html (178 words)

	Pitcairn Islands information information - Search.com
		Regional > Oceania > Pitcairn Islands > Society and Culture (21)
		Regional > Oceania > Pitcairn Islands > Society and Culture > History (9)
		The Pitcairn Islands (Pitkern : Pitkern Ailen) are a group of four islands, of which only Pitcairn Island — the second largest — is inhabited, in the southern Pacific Ocean, the only remaining British colony in the Pacific.
	domainhelp.search.com /reference/Pitcairn_Islands (1791 words)

	Pitcairn Islands Study Center
		For more current news articles, visit Google News at http://news.google.com/ and type "Pitcairn Island" or "Pitcairn news" or "Norfolk Island" etc. into the "Search News" box.
		Jul 19, 2004, NEWS.com.au, "Island's unity wrecked by sex trial"
		Feb 2, 2004, stuff.co.nz, "'Immensely significant' new evidence in Pitcairn Island sex case"
	library.puc.edu /pitcairn/news/articles.shtml (320 words)

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