In the 1850s, when descendants of the Bounty mutineers had outgrown their previous tiny rock haven on Pitcairn Island, they wrote to Queen Victoria, asking for a similar but larger island.

Every time Solomon Islands guide Ravia takes people to Skull Island, there are fewer offerings of precious shell money piled around the skulls of the head-hunted.

David Arrowsmith decides to pop over to American Samoa - with cultural visions of Somerset Maugham, US naval bases and historic buildings dancing in his head.

The world's remotest museum has opened on Pitcairn Island.

The Solomon Islands was once paradise on Earth, but to some it now feels like a trap.