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The majority of the many rulers of the Pitcairn Islands have been descendants of the Bounty mutineers, till this day. In 1935 – in the wake of their successful American blockbuster movie Mutiny on the Bounty , which premiered that year – the MGM Studios also shot a short documentary with the title "Pitcairn Island Today" (a Eugene H. Roth ...
Pitcairn Island was sighted on 3 July 1767 by the crew of the British sloop HMS Swallow, commanded by Captain Philip Carteret. The island was named after Scottish midshipman Robert Pitcairn, a fifteen-year-old crew member who was the first to sight the island. “we discovered land to the northward of us.
Belcher, Lady – The Mutineers of the Bounty and Their Descendants in Pitcairn and Norfolk Islands. 1870; Birkett, Dea – Serpent in Paradise. Anchor Doubleday, 1997. ISBN 0-385-48870-X. Brodie, Walter – Pitcairn Island and the Islanders in 1850. 1851; Christian, Glynn – Fragile Paradise: The Discovery of Fletcher Christian, Bounty ...
In 1938, the three islands, along with Pitcairn, were incorporated into a single administrative unit called the Pitcairn Group of Islands. By the 1930s and 1940s, diminished shipping and tourism to the island resulted in the residents selling many of the pre-European cultural items and Bounty -related paraphernalia to private individuals for ...
Pitcairn Islands people of Polynesian descent (28 P) S. Pitcairn Islands people of Saint Kitts and Nevis descent (16 P) This page was last edited on 18 May 2024, at ...
Chauvel's film uses introductory enacted scenes showing the mutiny, followed by documentary footage, anthropological style, of the mutineers' descendants on Pitcairn Island. [5] Chauvel also used footage of Polynesian women dancers; and film of an underwater shipwreck, filmed with a glass bottomed boat, which he believed was the Bounty but was ...
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One of the nine mutineers who arrived on the Pitcairn Islands in 1790, [18] Matthew Quintal, was a Cornish man. [19] He was one of the only mutineers to have children before his death, being partially responsible for the island continuing to have a population after the deaths of all the original arrivals on HMS Bounty.