The Nation of 38 People (& the Criminals who Founded It)

In the middle of the Pacific Ocean lies a small island country known as the Pitcairn Islands. Although there are four of them, only the titular Pitcairn Island contains people; 38 of them, to be exact. Equally as strange as their current existence is the story of how they ended up there. In 1790, a mutiny on the HMS Bounty led to the first settlers finding their way to Pitcairn. The descendants of those settlers are still living there, after going through a slave uprising, decades of total isolation, and a horrific court case which tore the island apart. Now the Pitcairn Islanders are attempting to get people to move there... before their little territory becomes too small to save.

0:00 Intro
0:52 The Mutiny
3:23 Early Years
5:13 Dark Times
7:36 Today

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