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Mutiny on the Bounty: Lieutenant William Bligh and 18 sailors are set adrift, and the rebel crew returns to Tahiti briefly before setting sail for Pitcairn Island.
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Mutiny on the Bounty
1789 mutiny aboard the British Royal Navy ship HMS Bounty
The mutiny on the Bounty occurred in the South Pacific Ocean on 28 April 1789. Disaffected crewmen, led by acting-Lieutenant Fletcher Christian, seized control of the ship, HMS Bounty, from their captain, Lieutenant William Bligh, and set him and eighteen loyalists adrift in the…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
William Bligh
Royal Navy officer and colonial administrator (1754–1817)
William Bligh was a Royal Navy vice-admiral and colonial administrator who served as the governor of New South Wales from 1806 to 1808. He is best known for his role in the mutiny on HMS Bounty, which occurred in 1789 when the ship was under his command. The reasons behind the…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Tahiti
Island in French Polynesia
Tahiti is the largest island of the Windward group of the Society Islands in French Polynesia, an overseas collectivity of France. It is located in the central part of the Pacific Ocean and the nearest major landmass is the North Island of New Zealand. The island was formed from…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Pitcairn Island
Only inhabited island in the Pitcairn Islands, British Overseas Territories
Pitcairn Island is the only inhabited island of the Pitcairn Islands, in the southern Pacific Ocean, of which many inhabitants are descendants of mutineers of HMS Bounty.Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)