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> For that hour, the little Pitcairn Islands in the South Pacific are the only British territory in the Sun.

> The Pitcairn Islands have a population of a few dozen people, the descendants of the mutineers from the HMS Bounty.

Ah that seems so beautiful...

> The islands became notorious in 2004 when a third of the adult male population, including the mayor, were convicted of child sexual abuse

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2008/01/pitcairn200801

>The criminal charges stemmed from a longtime island practice of “breaking in” girls as young as 10.

> Colleen McCullough, the Australian author of The Thorn Birds and wife of a well-known Pitcairn descendant, harshly criticized the British for prosecuting what even the Foreign Office grudgingly conceded was a “cultural trait.” She said, “It’s Polynesian to break your girls in at 12.”

....oh.

Well. OK. That was NOT in Moana.

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Although archaeologists believe that Polynesians were living on Pitcairn as late as the 15th century, the islands were uninhabited when they were re-discovered by Europeans. In 1790, nine of the mutineers from the British merchant ship HMS Bounty, along with the native Tahitian men and women who were with them (six men, 11 women, and a baby girl), settled on Pitcairn Island and set fire to the Bounty.