Via a rather dark story on BoingBoing, I learned about the Pitcairn Islands, a tiny island group halfway between New Zealand and Peru. It has a residential population of 47, and generally sounds like one of the more remote places on the planet. You can see a bunch of photos of Pitcairn Islands here.
One of the places I feel I must go before I die is Easter Island (literally the most remote place on earth; it’s about equidistant between Chile to the East and the Pitcairns to the West). I’ve had a phobia about those damn statues since I was a little kid. As an adult it has developed into a fascination.
Darren, you definitely dredged up some memories. It started out as a comment, but since I’ve been to both Pitcairn and Easter Island, I just wrote it up as a full entry.
Now I have to go dig up my pictures.
Most of the men on trial are direct descendants of the Bounty crew, it’s all rather odd, sad and unfortunate (or perhaps pathetic is more the word).
