- Descendants of Mutineers Seek Independence - http://www.abc.net.au/ra/pacbeat/stories/s995752.htm
The descendants of a group of daring 18th Century mutineers made legal history last week, telling a New Zealand court that their ancestors' rebellion amounted to a declaration of independence. The claim was made by lawyers representing seven men from the remote Pacific island of Pitcairn.
- Pitcairn was never British, rape case court told - http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/11/19/wpit19.xml
Pitcairn, the South Pacific home of the descendants of the Bounty mutineers, has never been British territory and is instead the world's smallest and most isolated independent nation, a court was told. Reported in the Daily Telegraph.
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