The brutal story of the most isolated island in the world
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- Опубліковано 11 лис 2023
- We're heading far afield today to take a look at the most remote place on earth: The Pitcairn Islands. 5000 km from New Zealand and around 5400 km from South America, they are the last British colony in the Pacific and the journey there alone takes ages. But the most exciting thing about the islands is their brutal history.
All inhabitants are descended from a group of nine British mutineers, who fell into extreme brutality due to the strong isolation and of which only one survived in the end.
So today's video is about mutiny, loyalty and the sheer fight for survival.
When my wife's aunt passed away. We inherited some books. One of them was a hundred year old copy of the trilogy, Mutiny on the Bounty, Men Against the sea, and Pitcairn Island. I used to read it once a year. Probably my favourite book(s) of all time!
Yes read them many years ago as a teen.Great books and always wanted to be there
The plundering and greedy Brits killed millions of people during their three centuries of empire days.@@michaelarmstrong5065
I agree, Men Against the Sea in particular is one of my favourite books of all time. What an incredible true story of leadership, hope, skill, luck and survival.
You should burn those books. They’re just literally garbage.
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Mutiny on the bounty was my favourite book during my childhood.I was fascinated by the story and read the book multiple times.What an amazing story.
@claudeanururdha7907.Yes,it was my favorite from childhood too.
@@user-jy2cn3cn4tMy favourite book as a child was Robinson Crusoe .
I loved the story of the bounty,blyth certainly new how to navigate. 1800 mls in an open boat,then the navy sending hms pandora to hunt mutineers,another incredible adventure
Two film versions worth watching: one from 1935, starring Clark Gable and Charles Laughton, and one from 1962, starring Marlon Brando and Fletcher Howard.
You need to burn that book. It’s utterly garbage.
Only Pitcairn island itself is inhabited. The other islands in the group, including (the fairly large) Henderson Island, are atolls with insufficient vegetation or fresh water to sustain a human population. Pitcairn is volcanic (so much higher than the others, and with fertile soil).
We landed on Henderson. Pretty place, way too much plastic trash on the beach.
@@alanfoster6589I wish the oceans will be filled with plastic trash and human poop.
Its called Adamstown. The only island that has people out of the Pitcairn islands
That partially stable wifi connection is what sold me. Sign me up. lol
Yep Minutes a day.............
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Bounty was an armed vessel, a collier converted for the mission, slow sluggish and very tough.
Frigates were fast and maneuverable, frigates had about 250 crewmen, and British frigates had 33 to 38 heavy guns. Bounty had 4 and those very light cannon, and about 40 men
Nearly 20 years ago, 7 men on the island (one third of the male population) including the mayor, were convicted of committing paedophilia there. They claimed at trial that British law had no jurisdiction over them.
They also claimed that, on Pitcairn, the age of consent was 12 years old.
@@geoswan4984 It was, that was the normal AoC historically. Note the Bar Mitzvah at 12 was when Jewish boys became men
In betweenie weenies?
I’m not surprised. Sick people.
@@mickvonbornemann3824 Yeah, but this is 20 years ago.
Good job, Julie. You speak clearly, just the facts ... although many, many ppl have it in their head this is a "client list" and they just don't hear you clearly. Oh well!!
I love great content with no ads. Well done! you have my liked and subscribed!
Just stolen content from germany channel „clever camel“. That explains the AI voice
Very Informative, thanks! Love history!
They shoved then Lieutenant Bligh and the non-mutiny men adrift in a 23-ft. dinghy and... I'll be darned if Bligh & 18 crew didn't make it to Timor, 3,600 miles in 47 days (!) and ultimately back to London. Amazing. Truly amazing.
Capt Bligh was a masterful navigator.
They certainly did not drift anywhere .They were very well under control. Brilliant voyage. Not only that but some the company even built their own Sckooner in the east indies which they ( after the RN ship Pandora sent to capture them) sank and sold it at Batavia to pay their own passage home to England.
There's an island in Torres strait between top of Australia and New Guinea where passing ships would stop to drop off, pick up and sort through mail that needed delivery to where they were headed for. It's interesting that all European countries honoured the integrity of the set up even during hostilities. Maybe there were other such mail points elsewhere on the globe . So much of those times was so well explained in a mid school history textbook of 1938 I came across once. Australian textbook printed in India of course. The novel by Bryce Courtney..Mathew Flinders' Cat is also informative.
Bligh was a vicious wicked man!
Not as amazing as the Polynesians. They didn’t have sextants but still navigated to nearly all the Pacific islands including Rapa Nui which is closer to Sth America.
Thank you for sharing.😊
Brilliant! Thank you!
My wife stopped there on a sailing trip around the world, she said it’s incredibly creepy
Creepy in a way off?
@@Tha-King-Arthur sexual abuse kind of creepy
What that before she was your wife....just asking
It’s an insular community shut of from the outside world - they can get pretty bad.
@@Tha-King-Arthur Gang R*pe, Other Sexual Abuse, If a woman is 12 she is seen as ready etc. Very messed up place. Alot of people got jailed for it in the early 2000s.
0:47)William Bligh was a newly minted Lieu Tenant. The Bounty was an Armed Merchant Vessel(AMV). Much like the AMV Lusitania and the commerce raiders of WW I & WW II.
Thank you. Enjoyed it. I'd love to see some footage of present-day town life, their government system, agriculture and livestock, local food, businesses and industries, assorted native customs, examples of spoken Pitcairn English, what remains of their former faith, and how lifestyles vary from island to island.
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Fascinating, thanks for illuminating 😊
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The sailing vessel, a two masted traditionally rigged barquantine that played the HMS Bounty in the movie, was named the SS Marquez and it was in port with us in Plymouth England while we were putting the rigging on our two masted traditionally rigged schooner, as well as deck houses. We got to know the crew of both them and their sister ship the SS Inca and we helped to install some of the custom bunks that we had in our ship, which they liked very much and wanted some for the officers. Apparently they were tired of sleeping in hammocks, as was tradition on the old tea clippers, although not well liked! Everything else on both ships was completely traditional to the era, hemp ropes, cotton sails, dead eyes instead of bottle screws, but it came across very authentic in the movie if you knew what to look for. We partied with the whole crew of both ships before they departed for the Tall Ships Race that was to be held over in the states somewhere that year, unfortunately, the Inca hit a squall in the middle of the Atlantic and their hatches were not buttoned up, and she foundered and went down with all hands. That has always affected me deeply because I almost joined the crew of the Inca as they were short hands at the time. Funny the things you remember, but most of all that tomorrow is promised to no man. 🙏💪⚓️
Was always fascinated with this place
I read the book Mutiny on the bounty during my childhood and was fascinated by the story.
One of my favorite films. The Bounty with Sir Anthony Hopkins Mel Gibson Daniel Day Lewis Liam Neesom Sir Laurence Olivier. Great acting and adventure.
There are 3 movies about bounty one black and white with sir Charles Laugton as captain Bligh and Clark Gable as Fletcher, the most hateful Bligh. The second my preference with Marlon Brando as Fletcher and the third one witch you are talking about. All 3 are great but Marlon.
I liked the one with Charles Laughton and Marlon Brando
Me too!!
Living in Australia, we know about Pitcairn and Captain Bligh . Crazy that they burnt down the ship . Captain Bligh was an astounding navigator to be able to navigate tje lifeboat back to Dutch Indonesia. Sydney cove Australia was the other option. I'm considering that offer to live on Pitcairn . So between Australia and Pitcairn is Norfolk island and there's another closer in too . Surely with a well equipped yacht a good lifestyle presents itself maybe doing utoob videos on the side .
Pitcairn islanders were given land on Norfolk island to colonise due to inbreeding on Pitcairn Inhabitants on Norfolk were given 26 acres for men 13 for women
I was wondering about inbreeding. Pretty shallow gene pool there.
Hi thanks for the info
A beautiful and rugged place. Making carvings and such for the occasional cruise ship that calls has provided islanders with another source of income. They also sell what they assert is the cleanest honey in the world. When I was there, I had a nice chat with Tom Christian, Fletcher Christian's great-great-great-great grandson, who embraced his geneological celebrity with grace. Sadly, Tom passed on some years ago. There is on-and-off talk of New Zealand building an airstrip, but there is simply no suitable place. And then there's the cost-to-benefit ratio.
But planes can land okay on relatively small aircraft carriers. Just line up two decommissioned carriers for extra measure.
That's a fun idea, but not enough people on Pitcairn to justify it. Even landing something like an Osprey would be tough. The place is pretty much straight up and down.
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Or purchase a couple of Japanese flying boats and use those for occasional connections from New Zealand to Pitcairn.
Good idea. Range and refueling issues, though.@@williamjpellas0314
But aren't seaplanes a thing? They could just land on the water 😂
There's been several movies about the mutineers but I believe the tale of Captain Bligh and his loyal men traveling back to England should be told. Also how does the Pitcairn Island Isolation compare to the Easter Island?
A superb and informative video,many thanks,God bless
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Interesting video, but the Bounty was not a frigate. It was much smaller and lightly armed. So few men would have had trouble handling anything bigger.
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Informative and concise. 👍
Stolen from german channel clever camel
I thought this was going to be a practical joke about the 1960's tv comedy show Gilligan's Island. But, this story has an interesting history.
yes, interestingly RACIST and another jerusalem supremacy pawns derangement
50 odd years ago my Dad used to get the annual shipment of stock and station supplies together for shipment to Pitcan from Napier harbour in NZ
Thank you.
very nice video.... could have also mentioned the dramatized movies on the subject
The mutiny on the bounty consisted of the crew leaving the captain..by just walking off.they probably didn't want captain Bligh ruling them,so instinctively,they shot off into Pitcairn with joyous excitement.the warmer climate and sight of palm trees yielding coconuts,and a plentiful supply of fish would have rocketed their excitement to stratospheric levels.
They didn't LEAVE Lieutenant Bligh. Shortly after they left Tahiti they seized the ship, by force. They let Bligh, and men who didn't want to Mutiny, leave in the ship's longest boat.
Bligh took 18 loyal men with him. He had to leave some loyal men behind, as the boat just wasn't large enough.
I'd always thought that 20 foot boat had the shape of a cruise ship lifeboat. But, when I visited the Portsmouth Naval Museum, I saw a modern reproduction of that boat. It was much more narrow than a lifeboat. I am amazed Bligh was able to fit even a dozen men on board.
Bligh sailed that 20 foot boat 3,500 miles, to Portugese Timor. This is still regarded as one of the most amazing voyages in maritime history.
The reproduction was built, from the original blueprints. It was built because a descendant, maybe one of Bligh's descendants, replicated the original voyage, in a reproduction.
I remember reading the book Mutiny on the bounty during my childhhood.I was facinated by the story and read the book multiple times.
You're so mis-informed.
How can you just walk off in the middle of the ocean?
Stop wasting the internet.
Wow very nice story about history of this island. thanks for sharing this video ☺️ New subscriber from. A&V mini farm 🤠
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Polynesian left due to not enough food, water or women, that why it was empty
Thank you
I've been to pitcain several times when I was at sea with NZ shipping comp & Federal steam in the 60" 70" store's & timber we use to drift & off load into there dorries to deep to anchor
did the same on the act 2 in the 80 s
An ancestor of mine called John Sumner was one of the mutineers. He was caught with three others and put in chains on the ship Pandora. This ship founded of the coast of Australia, John and the other mutineers went down with the ship as the captain would not released them.
Keep it in the family as they all said!
They made a movie about this in 1984 called The Bounty, with Anthony Hopkins, Mel Gibson, Daniel Day Lewis, Lawrence Olivier, Bernard Hill, Liam Neeson and others. It's a good movie.
Partially reliable Wifi. Think about that for a moment.
Sounds blissful to me!! 😂😂
Bit like the hotel I’m currently in on ko Chang Thailand……….
It must mean they have Spectrum!
I heard that Musk is building an apocalypse bunker there, soon they will all have Starlink internet. Musk will also import a dozen strippers, as he is a fan of strip clubs, being a Pastafarian an all...
Looks like a great place to visit
Amazing
What foes it mean "cruise ships have been lost on the islands"?
Odd glitch in the narration indeed. Apparently their being lost "boosts the local economy." 😮
AI generated script.
If I was much younger and had my full health and strength, i could understand looking for smaller islands with less and less people, England controlls quiet a few small islands no one lives on we ith developed water systems and game
This is unbelievable
Crazy that I’ve been there and know some of the people in those pictures. 🤩⛵️😃
Wow.
Can Brit's really emigrate there?
@@Ardass486 yes
call it racist, and jerusalem supremacy's pawns derangement
Surely the Falklands would be preferable
Tristan da Cunha is also often billed as the most isolated island in the world.
My wife stopped there also on her sailing trip, the local welder made a new part for the boat. She liked that place much more than Pitcairn
@@boathemian7694how can i do that sailing trip lol
@@geography_joe get a small sailboat and spend 8 months hanging on
@@boathemian7694 nothing less than 15 metres I think .
@@Biggles732 everyone has an opinion about that. She was on a 39’ performance cruiser, spade rudder and fin keel. The boat held up very well, but it was sailed by very good couple of sailors. My first serious blue water boat was a Hanna design that was 30’ LOA. I would have taken her anywhere lol.
Never heard of Bouvet island?? Or do you mean inhabited.
I lived in the island of Saipan. Went to an inter island chamber of commerce meeting. Met a man there from Pitcairn Island. He said he was very happy that an Australian navel ship was in. He said it would help the gene pool.
what a load of jerusalem's crimminal pawns and darwin pseudoscience "evolutive" baltic tribe wackos
Australian navels are the best! Their navy and naval ships are almost as shiny as their famously seductive belly buttons, lol!
Thank god, she's a real woman 🙏🙌🫶👏👏👏
Ive ordered honey from pitcairn - i love that little island ❤😊
How exactly do cruise ships get lost on the island?
My wife visited there with her family in the 70s. Years later, my sister-in-law married a Pitcairn man, and now we have a niece! Yes, Pitcairn is haunted as hell! 😮
Haunted how? Give us a story
I didn't know Harry Bellefonte grew up there.
5000 km from New Zealand and around 5400 km from CHILE !!!!! And 1924 Kms to Easter Island ( Chile)
Thought this was going to be about Diego Garcia.
There you go thinking again.
Well,you forgot to mention that is not so far away from French Polynesia which is inhabited
The Bounty was not a RN Frigate She was designated HMAV His Majesty's Armed Vessel this is a small ship with only one commissioned officer Even Smaller than Cooks Endevour (designated HMBarke) a frigate was considerably bigger than both of these.
Like to be there ❤️❤️
I met a guy sharing a room in a house in 1987 in Sydney who claimed to be a decendant from Pitcairn. He was weird and suspected of molesting one of the young girls at the house (I found out about this years later after leaving the house).
Perfect get away place
What does that mean, "cruise ships have been lost on the islands"? No further explanation? My conclusion, from the information given, is that the "cruise ships" got lost on land and couldn't navigate back to sea; like beached whales. Can anyone provide a better explanation from the information given? What happened to the crews and passengers of these "lost cruise ships"?
Love the content of the video, however, that horrible “music” you have going in the background is so distracting that I found it hard to listen to. Just some feedback. Lose the music and you will have a more attractive video.
Bligh became a Governor in Australia
Online shopping with a questionable delivery date.....Respect to any who can consider such an outpost...It surely is to this day...
Maybe thats not far away from Christmas Island. We've been there last year.
What do they do in the event of appendicitis, a bad toothache or a broken leg?
Medical staff from NZ work there for several months at a time. One of my co workers went there for 3 months. Addit, in an emergency they can get additional help.
This is the safest place to be in Wold War 3
There will be no safe place in WWWIII.
Yeah, until the stragglers from everywhere else slowly drift in. Oh, and the fallout as well. Wait, you said safest, not necessarily safe. Never mind.☺
Not if you're female
@@ppmppm7010 Not if your Male either, many people have fallen off the steep cliffs. Theres a documentary on here somewhere, you can read between the lines.
I'm booking my passage!
Reminds me of Norwich. ‘Meet my wife and sister’ boom boom
This is the first time I've ever heard of this island. How do people survive there, what kind of income does it have ? Is it under British rule or does it just go by British law ?
There are plenty of films documentaries on here check them out.
Pitcairn is a New Zealand territory so effectively, yes, since NZ law is derived from British law and is a common law country.
@@BlindfoldSniper ... thanks for the info.
Tristan de Cuna and Herd Island would vie for this titel too.
MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY
Can we put the WEF on it please
And Bligh and the loyal seamen were not put on a dinghy, it was the ship’s launch, a longboat
Is this offer available for Australians?
No. British citizens only but immigration applications from Commonwealth citizens are looked upon favourably, you just wouldn't get the free patch of land.
The Bounty wasn’t a frigate. It was a small 3 masted merchant ship
where do i sign up?
Hey you never did the video of the island Tristan Da Cunha
How do they get on for fresh potable water ?????😮😮😮
How's the pizza delivery there?
@@marknewton6984 by WiFi
What about 5G connectivity?
@@TheBatugan77 There is 4G.
That is an ongoing problem as there is no permanent fresh water supply; the island has a reservoir which captures water when the springs are flowing.
Sounds like this all started over woman.
Figures.
Wrong the most brutal Island is Shemya at the end of the Aluetians Island Where the Pacific and Bearing Sea meet.
Very interesting! 🙋
So do I need British citizenship or can I just volunteer to move there? Couldn't afford it, just curious. Would never want to live on an isolated island ftm. Along, apparently, with most of the sane world.
You have to be a British citizen but immigration applications from Commonwealth realm citizens are looked upon favourably, you just wouldn't get the free plot of land.
Isn't that where Cthulhu lives, in the city of R'lyeh?
In establishing the colony and it's government, the British Government granted full adult franchise to the islanders. This making bit the first Government in the world where women had the right to vote. This was about 1850, from memory, and because the population was so small. In terms of granting full adult franchise New Zealand was second in 1894 and South Australia third in 1896.
Crazy that I’ve been there and know some of the people in those pictures. ️
5000 km from x is almost worthless. Might as well say a galaxy far, far away
Now what was the name of the ship?
Romeo
I thought this was going to be about The Isle of Sheppey 😂
i live nearby this island
No sound!??🤔
"so that no one could ever find them," or so no one could leave?
dammm i am moving in there .. see yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
Yea I was they my self when I was dreaming
I whant to go and stay there 🙂
The mission of the _Bounty_ was not to supply the "small British outpost" (as there was none) but to retrieve breadfruit plants to bring back to the Caribbean islands, there to be grown as food for the slave populations there. Accordingly, _Bounty_ embarked a botanist.
no mention of the paedo scandal? in a video entitled "the brutal story..." wow.
Well, imagine that Rome2Rio was not very helpful for this one...!
I Love to settle in such isolated island
There are too many challenges to overcome if you choose to live in such remote islands.
@@DhanasekaranT-de4wz challenges are there ever where we should overcome that
@@gvbalajee👈😆👌
Yeah, okay junior.
Says the dweeb who locks his keys in the car once a week.
Bouvet island crying in the corner