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.
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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.
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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).
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