Flags, Symbols & Currency of Pitcairn

The Coat of Arms of Pitcairn Islands

The Coat of Arms of Pitcairn Islands was officially adopted on November 4, 1969. The Coat of Arms features a shield that represents the fascinating ancestral history of the island residents, most of whom have descended from the mutineers of HMS Bounty. The green, yellow and blue colors of the shield symbolizes the green island rising from the vast blue oceans. The green background of the shield features a yellow anchor that is surmounted by a Bible. Both the anchor and the Bible were the items found on the HMS Bounty. The anchor symbolizes the history of the island and the Bible represents the religion of Christianity which was established by the mutineers who settled on the island. Sitting on the shield is a helmet that is surrounded by a wheelbarrow from which springs a flowering twig of a local plant called miro. The wheelbarrow represents the agriculture that helped the mutineers to survive the harsh conditions on the remote Pitcairn Islands.