"No violence and no traffics and no bus stops, just lovely people and coconut trees and white sand and blue ocean" is how one resident describes life on Palmerston Island, some 2,000 miles northeast of New Zealand. Fifty-nine of the island's 62 inhabitants are descended from one man, a William Marsters, who was born in Leicestershire, England, around 1831 and moved to the island with his Polynesian wife and her two (female) cousins in 1863 (story, video):
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-25430383
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