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Pitcairn Island
Wasn't Pitcairn abandoned by the Bounty Mutineers because it was too small
to support their growing population? They all moved to Norfolk island in the mid 1800's. Saw a doco about this just last night. Also, Brian, if you're looking for an island to move to, you may not do better than Tasmania (but I'm biased, as that's where I live). Have a look at http://www.discovertasmania.com.au/ -- Judanne "briancady413" wrote in message om... Don't Mennonite, Bruderhof and Amish have traditions of land stewardship and of forming colonies? I think Mennonites have started quite a few tropical communities, although perhaps in highlands. Gaviotas is a recent colony in highland Columbia that just might want to move or split, with recent violence there. They seem like really neat folk who have done amazing ecological transformations that any permaculturalist must respect, if not stagger in awe of, if reports prove true. Alan Weisman wrote about them. I heard one of the Canary Islands has a tradition of excellent, pre-permaculture gathering and storing rare rain there, which has transformed the isle.(which might be Fuerteventura.) I heard it was a rocky, barren low island that didn't get much rain, and now its full of gardens and people living their lives. (Some Canary islands are high and catch rain, some are low and dry. Maybe also there are refugee communities seeking sanctuary, with whom Pitcairn islanders would feel a cultural or empathetic bond with. Maybe inviting a variety of lifestyle/belief gropus could help eventually form. On the other hand, maybe the women of Pitcairn could select from among a world-full of men through online personals, those that would suit them and the island's opportunities. I actually once stumbled across a translated Japanese analysis of which churches had most successfully colonized Hokkaido, which had, and has, an indigenous gropu very unrelated to most japanese. This colonization was actualy not that long ago. Southern Japanese colonist farmers in Brazil, I have heard, have been very successful and responsible farmers there. Is this a similar climate? I'm interested in going to an island for good, but think of Tristan de Cunha, with its climate more suited to my western european gene set. I have messed around in small boats every summer as a kid, racing sailing dinghies in choppy, but swell-less Buzzards Bay in Southern New England, and crewing with my family aboard my fathers' cruising sloops. I previously trained in Re-evaluation Counseling, a peer-to-peer counceling method focusing on recovery form any traumas, with some great strengths and a few weaknesses, but I'm quite rusty. What's news? Brian Cady |
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Pitcairn Island
Judanne, I just read that not all the burgeoning population took the
Norfolk Island option, at the historical background page of http://www.bountybay.org.uk/ 200 left, they report, in 1856. Brian Cady "Judanne" wrote in message . au .... Wasn't Pitcairn abandoned by the Bounty Mutineers because it was too small to support their growing population? They all moved to Norfolk island in the mid 1800's. Saw a doco about this just last night. |
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Pitcairn Island
I just read that the Pitcairners in fact all did leave for Norfolk
Island, but that some returned after realizing promises made to them were empty. I read this at a Norfolk Island website. Brian Cady |
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Pitcairn Island
briancady413 wrote:
I just read that the Pitcairners in fact all did leave for Norfolk Island, but that some returned after realizing promises made to them were empty. I read this at a Norfolk Island website. Why did they leave Pitcairn and which promises was delivered them? Anybody who have any information about predator friendly farming? Ener |
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