What was the Mutiny on the Bounty, where is Pitcairn Island and why does Britain send foreign aid there?
THE tropical Pitcairn islands are home to less than 50 people - almost all of whom are related to some of history's most notorious mutineers.
Since the 18th Century, Pitcairn has been a remote outpost for the ancestors of the mutinous HMS Bounty crew.
But recently, Britain's Pacific Ocean territory hit the headlines with the news it has received almost £18million in aid since 2011.
What happened on the Mutiny on the Bounty?
Pitcairn islanders are descendants of sailors who took part in the Mutiny on the Bounty in 1790.
The remote island was colonised by nine mutinous sailors from the crew of the Bounty led by Fletcher Christian.
The mutineers had placed the ship’s captain, William Bligh, and 18 of his men in a small boat, to drift to their expected deaths in the Pacific Ocean.
But in a feat of remarkable navigation, Bligh – who had been trained by Captain James Cook – was able to sail the boat and its men to the Indonesian Island of Timor.
Only one man was lost on the more than 3,000-mile journey.
The mutineers, sailing in the opposite direction, arrived on Pitcairn from Tahiti along with 18 Polynesians.
Their story has been retold a number of times on the silver screen, including in the 1962 film Mutiny on the Bounty starring Marlon Brando and Trevor Howard.
What is the Mutiny TV show?
A new Channel 4 reality show will challenge a group of today's men to recreate the Mutiny on the Bounty.
Mutiny will see a total of nine 21st century men setting out on the same gruelling journey in a replica 23ft open wooden boat.
They will have similar equipment and the same rations of food and water that Bligh’s men struggled with.
Ant Middleton, who you may recognise from SAS: Who Dares Wins, will assume the role of Captain Bligh.
Speaking about the show to Dan Wootton, Ant said it was his "hardest challenge yet".
The show starts on March 6 on C4.
How did Pitcairn Island become a British territory?
Archaeologists think the first settlers lived on the island as late as the 15th century but over time exhausted its natural resources.
This is throught to have caused a civil war on the island, eventually leading to the community's extinction.
The Pacific islands were rediscovered by the Portuguese explorer Pedro Fernandes de Queiros sailing for the Spanish crown on 26 January 1606 originally naming Pitcairn La Encarnacion.
The island was renamed by the British after it was spotted by the crew of HMS swallow in 1767.
It was named after a 15-year-old Midshipman, Robert Pitcairn, who was the first to spot the island.
Pitcairn was properly settled by some of the mutineers from HMS bounty in 1790.
It would be five years before the mutineers saw another ship from the island.
After contact was finally made with the outside world Pitcairn became a British colony in 1838.
Where is Pitcairn Island?
Covering an area of several hundred square miles, Pitcairn has four main islands, with only Pitcairn settled.
One of the world’s most remote outposts, it sits in the middle of the South Pacific – around 3,500 miles from both Peru to the east and New Zealand to the west.
Its population has fluctuated from 250 in 1936 to as few as 40 in 1997.
In 2004, seven men on the island, and another six offshore were charged with child sex offences.
Six of them were convicted, including the island’s mayor.
Britain has sent nearly £18m to the territory since 2011 in order to run its school, prison, ferry service and health centre.
