Most of the inhabitants of this tiny island are descended from the Bounty mutineers & their Polynesian wives
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The Bounty, Pitcairn Island, and Fletcher Christian's Descendants  April 28 marks the anniversary of the world's most famous mutiny ... the romantic fascination with the mutiny is the existence of a small community on Pitcairn Island directly descended from the mutineers and their Tahitian wives. ... Pitcairn's population dropped to zero when all the inhabitants emigrated to Norfolk Island.
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Pitcairn Islands - Wikipedia  The Pitcairn Islands or officially Pitcairn, Henderson, Ducie and Oeno Islands, are a group of ... The islands are inhabited mostly by descendants of the Bounty mutineers ... The earliest known settlers of the Pitcairn Islands were Polynesians who .... is also capable of supporting a small human population despite its scarce...
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Reclaiming the Bounty - Archaeology Magazine Archive  The mutineers sank Bounty near a rocky point off Pitcairn Island. Its ... as an afront to the Christian beliefs of the mutineers and their descendants. ... sown during this period of prolonged contact with the Polynesian inhabitants. ... Most Pitcairners remained on Norfolk, but a small group returned in 1858 and another in 1863.
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History - Online Pitcairn  Today's Pitcairn Island population is descended from British sailors and Tahitians. The mutineers of the HMS Bounty settled the island [first discovered by world ... island, the nine remaining mutineers, their women some nine other Polynesian men ... quickly became, and remain, one of the world's most isolated communities.
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Mutiny on the Bounty - Wikipedia  The mutiny on the Royal Navy vessel HMS Bounty occurred in the south Pacific on 28 April ... Bligh meanwhile completed a voyage of more than 3,500 nautical miles ... No action was taken against Adams; descendants of the mutineers and their ... a Polynesian island in the south Pacific, to the British colonies in the West...
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The Bounty, Pitcairn Island, and Fletcher Christian's Descendants  Set in the paradisiacal islands of the South Seas, the mutiny involved a host of ... weeks later, near the island of Tonga, the crew, led by first mate Fletcher Christian, ... Pacific for a safe haven, eventually settling on Pitcairn on January 23, 1790. ... Pitcairn's population dropped to zero when all the inhabitants emigrated to...
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The Bounty, Pitcairn Island, and Fletcher Christian's Descendants  April 28 marks the anniversary of the world's most famous mutiny ... Living on a 1.75 square mile volcanic speck in the South Pacific that is surely one of .... and the tiny island, with only 88 acres of flat land, could no longer sustain its people.
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The Bounty - Penguin  The ship, Pandora, had been specifically commissioned to apprehend the mutineers and ... Of the sixteen men left by Christian on Tahiti, two had already been responsible for ... British toes apparently lacked the telltale spread of unshod Tahitians'. .... Christian and the Bounty had departed Tahiti in September 1789a...
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Norfolk Island - The Third Settlement  Christian and eight mutineers along with 18 Tahitians occupied Pitcairn Island ... Even today the descendants of the Pitcairners share only a few family names: ... Quintal and Young are the "Bounty names"; Buffett, Evans and Nobbs are the ... and the island was handed by an Imperial Order-In-Council of June, 1856, to the...
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Voyage of Bounty - Pacific Union College Library  In the seventeen months that Bligh was in command of the Bounty, he ordered ... knows (although midshipman Heywood tells us that she sometimes went to ten). ... On that beautiful island the main objective of the expedition, the breadfruit, was ..... were collecting the women (including Christian's consort Mauatua) and pigs,...
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History of the Pitcairn Islands - Wikipedia  The history of the Pitcairn Islands begins with the colonization of the islands by Polynesians in the 11th century. The Polynesians established a culture that flourished for four centuries and then vanished. Pitcairn was settled again in 1790 by a group of British mutineers on HMS Bounty and Tahitians. ... After Young's death from asthma in 1800, John Adams was the only mutineer...
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Pitcairn Island - Oceania: island pitcairn, island uninhabited, end ...  Adamstown, the only village on the island, is on the northern coast, near Bounty Bay. Archaeological evidence indicates that Polynesians may have lived on...
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Pitcairn Islands - Wikipedia  The Pitcairn Islands or officially Pitcairn, Henderson, Ducie and Oeno Islands, are a group of ... The islands are inhabited mostly by descendants of the Bounty mutineers ... However, some sources express doubt about exactly which of the islands ... On 3 May 1856 the entire population of 193 people set sail for Norfolk on...
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The Bounty, Pitcairn Island, and Fletcher Christian's Descendants  The Bounty, Pitcairn Island, and Fletcher Christian's Descendants ... Source: Norfolk Island Website ... Set in the paradisiacal islands of the South Seas, the mutiny involved a host of colorful characters, ... The Bounty left England on Dec. ... the South Pacific for a safe haven, eventually settling on Pitcairn on January 23, 1790.
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History of the Pitcairn Islands - Wikipedia  The history of the Pitcairn Islands begins with the colonization of the islands by Polynesians in ... After Young's death from asthma in 1800, John Adams was the only mutineer left ... Several ships had apparently discovered the island during the 1790s, and one ... He was known as "father" by all members of the community.
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Pitcairn Islands - Wikipedia  The Pitcairn Islands or officially Pitcairn, Henderson, Ducie and Oeno Islands, are a group of ... The islands are inhabited mostly by descendants of the Bounty mutineers ..... of coins and postage stamps to collectors, .pn domain names, and the sale of ... The only qualified high voltage electricity technician on Pitcairn, who...
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PACIFIC ISLAND CULTURE: The Papers of Rev George Brown  Her father was a leading member of the local Methodist Church and one of her sisters ... home of his missionary uncle, the Rev Thomas Buddle, and his mother's sister. .... New Ireland, and the Admiralty Islands - part of the Bismarck Archipelago, ..... On landing in New Britain they split into two parties with Mr Hicks leading a...
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Free Flashcards about TRAVEL & TOURISM - StudyStack  JUST SMALLER THAN NEW JERSEY, THIS REPUBLIC CONSISTS OF ABOUT 300 SOUTH PACIFIC ISLANDS, INCLUDING THE YASAWA GROUP, FIJI.
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History of the Pitcairn Islands - Wikipedia  The history of the Pitcairn Islands begins with the colonization of the islands by Polynesians in the 11th century. The Polynesians established a culture that flourished for four centuries and then vanished. Pitcairn was settled again in 1790 by a group of British mutineers on HMS ... These first Pitcairners seem to have operated a trading relationship with the...
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Reclaiming the Bounty - Archaeology Magazine Archive  The mutineers sank Bounty near a rocky point off Pitcairn Island. .... the resting place of the last surviving Bounty mutineer, John Adams, who died in 1829 having...
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Norfolk Island - Wikipedia  Norfolk Island is a small island in the Pacific Ocean located between Australia, New Zealand, .... Norfolk Island is located in the South Pacific Ocean, east of the Australian mainland. .... European-Tahitian ancestry, being descendants of the Bounty mutineers as well as more recent arrivals from Australia and New Zealand.