Happy Island John Adams (8 photos)

In dreams or as a joke, many guys talk about the possibility stay alone with a few girls and become their master, Sultan, lover and everything else in one bottle. And this man such an opportunity presented itself in real life.





The history of Pitcairn Island began with the famous riot on English ship "Bounty" April 28, 1789. Captain Policy turned out to be too tough, the team rebelled and flatly refused return to the sea. The rebels landed the captain and part of the loyal to commands him to the shore. And then they split up: part remained in Tahiti (their paradise life ended rather quickly due to illness and a tight rope on the neck thrown over by the crew of the first British ship), and the rest under the leadership of the helmsman Christian Fletcher landed on Pitcairn. Everything that could be used in new conditions, and the ship was flooded in order to avoid the desire to sneak away with fertile earth.








Pitcairn Island

A paradise island with a mild climate was inhabited by a small native tribe. At first, a peaceful neighborhood soon turned into an open one. confrontation, during which the living of the men - both local and There was only one English left - the sailor John Adams.

Common pope, king and god



Soon Tahitian women began to give birth to children - heirs British sailors who were no longer alive. And the father of new Adams became the children - there are no options. A strange family-commune lived quite happily. There was enough fruit, fish were caught, soft The tropical climate made it easy to get a rich harvest.

Adams divided labor duties, introduced the rules of education children in accordance with the norms of strict puritan morality. Tahitian women are not argued and fully accepted the rules of the leader.



Only in 1808 to the shore of this piece of land, lost in the Pacific Ocean, a merchant ship landed. who met a middle-aged Adams is already surrounded by women and many children. So civilized society, which was feverish from its cataclysms, learned about the existence of a specific, but at the same time a paradise.

John refused to return to the big world and leave his literally a big family. And he died on the island in 1829 in aged 65 years.

Pitcairn today



John Adams

In 1838 the island was recognized as a British colony. But continued to live by his own laws. This went on for over a century and a half. until today the island was visited by a certain Gail Cox - an officer police. And she was horrified by the traditional way of life (girls begin to live sexual life since the age of 12, which is wild for Europeans, but for the islanders that region is quite a norm).



Island population

The woman made it public, and the paradise island of Pitcairn turned into an island of rapists. 14 men, including the only mayor towns on the island - Adamstown were taken into custody. The women rebelled girls denied sexual intercourse, but some of the men were sentenced to real terms (the rest got off on probation).

Human rights activists from different countries joined the case and prepared an appeal demanding that the islanders be judged under the laws of XVIII century, since the British during all this time were not particularly interested in their remote territory and did not seek to change the laws here.



Grave of John Adams

Release failed, but five men left only 2 years each, and the latter spent 4, but on his native island, in a prison specially built for him.

After that, the islanders fell behind. And they keep on leading a quiet life according to the precepts of Adams: they cultivate the land, collect fruits, fish, create families (marriages are allowed between relatives, but only starting with second cousins) speak a funny mixtures of English and Polynesian (Pitcairn language) and not aspire to the big world with its problems and turmoil.