With no airport and only reachable by a two-day boat trip ... and a baby girl), settled on Pitcairn Island and set fire to the Bounty. The ship is still visible underwater in Bounty Bay.

Kathy Marks is the Sydney-based Asia–Pacific correspondent for the Independent. She is the author of Lost Paradise: From Mutiny on the Bounty to a Modern-Day Legacy of Sexual Mayhem, the Dark Secrets ...

HMS Spey, which is deployed to the Indo-Pacific for five years as part of Britain’s enduring presence in the region, is the first ship to visit since the start of the pandemic and the first ...

In January 1974 I visited and Pitcairn ... on his remote island. We became firm friends and when I was leaving he pressed these artefacts into my hand. These relics of HMS Bounty are sheathing ...

Pitcairn Island is a lonely lump of rock stuck in the ... abandoning the islandto the birdsuntil this day in 1767, when the HMS Swallow sailed by, and a 15-year-old midshipman by the name of ...