page_title: Pitcairn Islanders
section_title: Population history
hierarchical_section_title: Pitcairn Islanders / Population history
caption_attribution_description: English: Pitcairn Islanders
context_page_description: Pitcairn Islanders, also referred to as Pitkerners and Pitcairnese, are the inhabitants or citizens of the Pitcairn Islands. The Pitcairn Islands are a British Overseas Territory, mainly inhabited by Euronesians of British and Tahitian descent.
  The culture held in common by most Pitcairn Islanders is mainstream Pitcairn culture, a mixture of British and Polynesian culture derived from the traditions of the settlers who landed in 1790. Most of the people today are descended from the HMS Bounty mutineers of English, Cornish, Manx and Scottish descent, plus their Tahitian companions, including the few who settled afterwards. As of 2018, there are a total of 50 people inhabiting the island.
  There is also a Pitcairn diaspora particularly in Norfolk Island, New Zealand and mainland Australia. As a result from overcrowding on the island, in 1856 all 194 Pitkerners immigrated to Norfolk Island aboard the Morayshire but 16 of them returned to Pitcairn on the Mary Ann in 1858, followed by a further four families in 1864.
context_section_description: *   1856 Immigration to Norfolk Island left Pitcairn uninhabited.
  
  **  1859 First group returns from Norfolk Island.
  
  As of 2018.
caption: Pitcairn Islanders in 1916.
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