Pitcairn Island.

The Pitcairn Anthem Come ye Blessed is the national anthem of the Pitcairn Islands. God Save the Queen is the Official National Anthem of Norfolk Island, but the Pitcairn Come ye Blessed is the Un-official anthem there and it is sung at most island events.
The lyrics are taken from the Gospel of Matthew, chapter 25, verses 34-36 and 40.
The majority of the resident Pitcairn Islanders are the descendants of the Bounty mutineers and Tahitians. Pitkern is a creole language derived from 18th century English, with elements of the Tahitian language. It is spoken as a first language by the population and is taught alongside standard English at the island's only school. It is closely related to the creole language Norfuk, spoken on Norfolk Island, because Norfolk was repopulated in the mid-19th century by Pitcairners. In September 2003, a baby was born on the island for the first time in 17 years. Another child, Adrianna Tracey Christian, was born on Pitcairn on 3 March 2007. In February 2005, Shirley and Simon Young became the first married outsider couple in recorded history to obtain citizenship on Pitcairn. All of the Pitcairn Islanders are Seventh-day Adventist Christians.
Pitcairn residents

Due to a lack of educational facilities on the island, children of school age are sent to boarding schools either in New Zealand or Australia. As a result of this, many elect not to return to the island, with a memorable description of the island from an ex-resident being "A rural slum". This drain on the population has resulted in the labour force of the island being estimated at 15 able-bodied men in 2004.

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[dansimmons21]

Thank you for the film,

Pitcairn has always fascinated me. Amazing how such a small community can survive on such a small, isolated island. Would also be really interesting to listen to a conversation of someone speaking in Pitkern, and also perhaps in standard English...Surely there is a Pitcairn accent in English?

Many warm wishes from England

[matheona]

@dansimmons21 Thanks and I think They were able to live over there because LOVE IS STRONG.Yours matheona

[dttnch]

@matheona the poor victims where stunned by their own community and called tarts for leading the men on, some dropped their statements claiming they where mistaken!! the other brave women had to give evidence by video link. The abuse had been going on for generations even though the island claimed to be strict christians, even banning alcohol and dancing and other "immoral" behavior. Apparently gang raping children as young as ten while gagging them and holding them down was not immoral at all!!

[matheona]

@dttnch Thanks for watching matheona films,also for your comment.have a nice times Yours matheona

[MichaelMacer]

Good film. It would also be very interesting to listen to someone talking in Pitkern.

[matheona]

@MichaelMacer Thanks for your comment.You are really right.Love to you...Yours matheona

[dttnch]

@matheona Must i've been all that "love" the men of Pitcairn where showing towards the female children perhaps? There is a large gap in the above history of the island from 2000 onwards when the systematic pedophilia, teenage pregnancy @ 12-15 average and in cases violent rape of very young girls by men as old as 80yrs. The poor girls had no-one to turn to for help as this was part of life and accepted and defended by even their mothers, the male's of the island had a pick of whoever they wanted

[tommygunm1a1]

@kattowitz4 You are a bit delusional. Men rule ALL of the world. Men have made ALL the laws on every continent, in every remote region, and in every culture. The people of Pitcairn deserve their home as much as you deserve yours. You should delight in the fact that now they will be protected by your idea of law and order and morality.

[Treemeadow]

I remember "The Sweet By and By" being sung far more often than this. I always thought it was their anthem, but I was four when we came back to Australia from the Island.

[Treemeadow]

@dansimmons21

There IS a Pitcairn accent in English. It sounds almost Welsh. I spent the first four years of my life there, and came back to Australia speaking a very strong Pitcairnese accent.

[kattowitz4]

Pitcairn is a perfect example of what happens when you leave a bunch of men and women alone on an isolated island. Pitcairn is practically in the middle of the pacific, there are no police stations around for thousands of miles. The men on Pitcairn took full advantage of their situation and it absolutely sickens me. I think a law should be passed forbidding people to live on pitcairn and everyone already living there should be brought back to Britain.

[dttnch]

@matheona didn't matter if the girls didn't want them, they had no choice until a visiting police woman came to the island that is. The male "right" was defended by their woman folk when revealed to the world as their "culture" and that it was tradition to "break in" the girls at 12, problem was a lot of girls where "broken in" well before the age of 12. 6 men including the town major where convicted for offenses against children as young as 5yrs old. Look up the PITCAIRN SEX ABUSE TRIALS 2004