Pitcairn Island, the remote Pacific community of descendants of HMS Bounty mutineers, has seen its population nudge closer to 50 after the birth of just the second baby in over 18 years.

THE sex abuse trials of seven men from Pitcairn Island will begin on Monday, on the remote British outpost in the South Pacific that is home to the descendants of the Bounty mutineers.

A rape investigation on tiny Pitcairn Island in the South Pacific has snowballed.