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Pitcairn Island in 1913

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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D.C. · Jan 8, 1914

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 91, No. 2.

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Pitcairn Island in 1913

MACMILLAN'S “Statesman's Year Book” for 1913, published in London, has this note on Pitcairn Island: “Area, 2 square miles; population, in 1911, 145 (40 adult males, 45 adult females, 43 children aged 6-16, and 17 children under 6 years). The affairs of the island are conducted by a parliament of seven members, with a president, a vice president, and a judge. In religion the islanders (descendants of the mutineers of the ‘Bounty’) are Seventh-day Adventists.” Speaking of the various products of the island, the report says, “Pigs, formerly common, are now extinct.”