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Pitcairn Islanders also referred to as Pitkerners, are the inhabitants or citizens of the Pitcairn Islands. The Pitcairn Islands is a nation, home to people of different ethnic and national backgrounds. Despite its composition, the culture held in common by most Pitcairn Islanders is referred to as mainstream Pitcairn culture, a mix of western and Polynesian culture largely derived from the traditions of western European immigrants, primarily of English, Scottish, Tahitian descent (descendants of the Bounty mutineers) and other Polynesians.〔(www.government.pn ) Pitcairn's History.〕 There is also a Pitcairn diaspora particularly in New Zealand, Norfolk Island and mainland Australia as a result that in 1856 all 193 Pitkerners immigrated to Norfolk Island but 16 of them returned to Pitcairn the following year followed by a further four families in 1864.〔(www.government.pn Pitcairn Island Diaspora Survey ) (2014)〕 ==History== Pitcairn Island was sighted on 3 July 1767 by the crew of the British sloop HMS ''Swallow'', commanded by Captain Philip Carteret. The island was named after Scottish Midshipman Robert Pitcairn, a fifteen-year-old crew member who was the first to sight the island. Robert Pitcairn was a son of British Marine Major John Pitcairn, who later was killed at the Battle of Bunker Hill in the American Revolution. In 1790, nine of the mutineers from the ''Bounty'', along with the native Tahitian men and women who were with them (six men, eleven women and a baby girl), settled on Pitcairn Islands and set fire to the ''Bounty''. The wreck is still visible underwater in Bounty Bay, discovered in 1957 by ''National Geographic'' explorer Luis Marden. 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. John Adams and Ned Young turned to the scriptures, using the ship's Bible as their guide for a new and peaceful society. Young eventually died of an asthmatic infection. The Polynesians also converted to Christianity. They later converted from their original form of Christianity to Seventh-day Adventism, following a successful Adventist mission in the 1890s. After the rediscovery of Pitcairn, John Adams was granted amnesty for his part in the mutiny. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Pitcairn Islanders」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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