Having established that Joshua W. Hill was less of a fraud than he has heretofore been assumed to be, this book now asks a set of new questions. Why would Hill have targeted Pitcairn Island as the location for his confidence scheme when he could have been a legitimate colonial governor anywhere else in the British Empire? Pitcairn, this chapter argues, has to have mattered more to Hill – and perhaps to the British Empire more broadly – than it has appeared to matter until now. Tracing early-nineteenth-century reflections on the island, this chapter maps out a new sense of Pitcairn’s intellectual importance to the British colonial imagination, arguing that Pitcairn is best understood as a lynchpin in nineteenth-century British thinking about the world’s largest ocean.