'Population explosion' on Pitcairn with second baby's birth

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 island is having “something of a population explosion” after a baby boy was born to an island couple in the New Zealand city of Auckland on March 22, the Pitcairn Island Study Centre said.