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The descendants of the Bounty mutineers include the modern-day Pitcairn Islanders as well as a little less than half of the population of Norfolk Island. Their common ancestors were the nine surviving mutineers from the mutiny on HMS Bounty which occurred in the south Pacific Ocean in 1789. Their descendants also live in New Zealand, Australia ...
Bounty was an enlarged reconstruction of the original 1787 Royal Navy sailing ship HMS Bounty, built in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, in 1960. She sank off the coast of North Carolina during Hurricane Sandy on October 29, 2012.
Works about HMS Bounty (1 C, 2 P) Pages in category "Mutiny on the Bounty" ... Descendants of the Bounty mutineers; E.
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In 1790, nine of the mutineers from the British naval vessel HMS Bounty, along with the native Tahitian men and women who were with them (six men, 11 women, and a baby girl), settled on Pitcairn Island and set fire to the Bounty.
The Bounty Museum holds the most important collection of Norfolk Island artifacts in the world.The centrepiece of the museum's collection is the 6 metre-long replica of the HMAV Bounty Launch. Other important objects include cannon balls from the wreck of the HMS Sirius's, objects relating to the islands convict days, as well as objects that ...
Lady Susan was married to the late BBC chairman Marmaduke Hussey. Her daughter Lady Katharine Brooke is a close friend of the Queen Consort, and has just been appointed one of Camilla’s six new ...
Teraura, also Susan or Susannah Young (c. 1775 – July 1850), was a Tahitian woman who settled on Pitcairn Island with the Bounty Mutineers.She took part in Ned Young's plot to murder male Polynesians who had travelled on HMS Bounty and killed Tetahiti.