Vivere a Pitcairn | Quaranta Persone su un'Isola Senza Aeroporto | Documentario
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Forty people live on Pitcairn. Every year about 700 write in to ask if they can come and live there. Since 2013, no one has managed it.
There's no airport and no harbor. You get there by a plane to Tahiti, the weekly flight to Mangareva, and then 32 hours at sea on a supply vessel that takes 12 passengers in 6 double cabins. When it arrives, it can't dock: Bounty Bay lacks the coral reef that protects the other Pacific islands, so the open ocean hits it directly, and everything comes ashore on long boats steered by the islanders, only when the wave allows it. On Pitcairn, the calendar doesn't decide: the wave decides.
Four surnames keep coming up on the island — Christian, Young, Warren, and Brown — tracing back to the Bounty mutineers, who arrived in 1790 after burning their own ship in the bay so that no one could ever leave. They numbered about 250 at their peak: today they're less than a fifth of that.
In the video: the honey from bees that stayed isolated and free of the diseases striking hives in the rest of the world; the lobster sold to cruise ships — when the sea won't let the passengers land, it's the residents who go aboard, not the other way around; the stamps that were two-thirds of public revenue until the 2004 bankruptcy; and the island that shuts off at 10 p.m. because the diesel generators run sixteen and a half hours a day, burning 75,000 liters of diesel a year. Then the school: one building, one teacher almost always from New Zealand, on a twelve-month contract.
But truth number one is an age: 13 years old. That's when every kid on Pitcairn leaves home for high school in New Zealand. There they finish school, there they make their friends, there they find a job that doesn't exist on the island. It isn't a flight: it's the only way this community has to give its children a real education. In 1790 the mutineers burned their only way out. Two hundred thirty-six years later, their descendants have one that leaves on schedule — and they use it on every kid born there.
Would you send your child to another country at 13, if it were the only way to give them a school? Write it in the comments.
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00:00 Free land for anyone, and no one who makes it
01:25 Ten: 32 hours at sea, if the ship is there
03:08 An island with nowhere to dock
04:26 Four surnames
05:50 The honey that has no diseases
07:10 The stamps were two-thirds of everything
08:52 The power goes off at ten at night
10:32 One school, one teacher, a one-year contract
11:50 Seven hundred letters a year
13:09 And then the satellite arrived
14:48 Thirteen years old
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Vivere a Pitcairn | Quaranta Persone su un'Isola Senza Aeroporto | Documentario
Viaggi senza confini
53,744 views
Forty people live on Pitcairn. Every year about 700 write in to ask if they can come and live there. Since 2013, no one has managed it.
There's no airport and no harbor. You get there by a plane to Tahiti, the weekly flight to Mangareva, and then 32 hours at sea on a supply vessel that takes 12 passengers in 6 double cabins. When it arrives, it can't dock: Bounty Bay lacks the coral reef that protects the other Pacific islands, so the open ocean hits it directly, and everything comes ashore on long boats steered by the islanders, only when the wave allows it. On Pitcairn, the calendar doesn't decide: the wave decides.
Four surnames keep coming up on the island — Christian, Young, Warren, and Brown — tracing back to the Bounty mutineers, who arrived in 1790 after burning their own ship in the bay so that no one could ever leave. They numbered about 250 at their peak: today they're less than a fifth of that.
In the video: the honey from bees that stayed isolated and free of the diseases striking hives in the rest of the world; the lobster sold to cruise ships — when the sea won't let the passengers land, it's the residents who go aboard, not the other way around; the stamps that were two-thirds of public revenue until the 2004 bankruptcy; and the island that shuts off at 10 p.m. because the diesel generators run sixteen and a half hours a day, burning 75,000 liters of diesel a year. Then the school: one building, one teacher almost always from New Zealand, on a twelve-month contract.
But truth number one is an age: 13 years old. That's when every kid on Pitcairn leaves home for high school in New Zealand. There they finish school, there they make their friends, there they find a job that doesn't exist on the island. It isn't a flight: it's the only way this community has to give its children a real education. In 1790 the mutineers burned their only way out. Two hundred thirty-six years later, their descendants have one that leaves on schedule — and they use it on every kid born there.
Would you send your child to another country at 13, if it were the only way to give them a school? Write it in the comments.
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#Pitcairn #RemoteIslands #Bounty #Pacific #ViaggiSenzaConfini
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00:00 Free land for anyone, and no one who makes it
01:25 Ten: 32 hours at sea, if the ship is there
03:08 An island with nowhere to dock
04:26 Four surnames
05:50 The honey that has no diseases
07:10 The stamps were two-thirds of everything
08:52 The power goes off at ten at night
10:32 One school, one teacher, a one-year contract
11:50 Seven hundred letters a year
13:09 And then the satellite arrived
14:48 Thirteen years old
La terra è gratis. Tutto il resto no: dodici posti sulla nave ogni volta, trentadue ore di mare dopo due aerei, due anni di prova da mantenere con i propri risparmi, nessun lavoro che ti aspetta a terra e la corrente che va via alle dieci di sera.
Ma il motivo per cui l'isola si svuota non è quello. Intorno ai tredici anni ogni ragazzo di Pitcairn parte per fare le superiori in Nuova Zelanda. Lì finisce la scuola, lì si fa gli amici, lì trova un lavoro che sull'isola non esiste. Nel millesettecentonovanta gli ammutinati bruciarono la propria nave in quella baia perché nessuno potesse più andarsene: duecentotrentasei anni dopo, i loro discendenti ne hanno una che parte puntuale, e la usano su ogni ragazzino che nasce lì.
*Uno:* manderesti tuo figlio a vivere in un altro paese a tredici anni, se fosse l'unico modo per dargli una scuola vera?
*Due:* nel posto in cui siete cresciuti, a che età se ne sono andati i vostri compagni di classe, e quanti sono tornati?
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