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Pitcairn Islands

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Boat-Shed Construction at Pitcairn Island|

Sorry—my “noticed” comment was about the four balls. I agree that Shaw’s death is usually described as similar to Pitcairn’s. And probably there were some British officers who died much like Shaw, as they stood atop the enemy’s fortification. But Pitcairn wasn’t one of them.|

In 1790, nine of the mutineers from the and their companions (six men, eleven women and a baby) — some of whom may have been kidnapped from Tahiti — settled on Pitcairn Islands and set fire to the . The wreck is still visible underwater in , discovered in 1957 by explorer . Although the settlers survived by farming and fishing, the initial period of settlement was marked by serious tensions among them. Alcoholism, murder, disease and other ills took the lives of most mutineers and Tahitian men. and turned to the , using the ship's as their guide for a new and peaceful society. Young eventually died of an infection. The Polynesians also converted to Christianity. They later converted from their original form of Christianity to , following a successful Adventist mission in the 1890s. After the rediscovery of Pitcairn, John Adams was granted for his part in the .|

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