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Ethnic group Descendants of the Bounty mutineers Descendants of the mutineers John Adams and Matthew Quintal on Norfolk Island, 1862 Total population ~1,000 worldwide Regions with significant populations Pitcairn Islands ~45 (2021) Norfolk Island ~450 (2016) Australia ~250 (2016) New Zealand ~45 (2018) [6] Languages English Pitkern Religion Seventh-day Adventist Church Related ethnic groups ...
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.
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 Saint Kitts and Nevis descent (16 P) This page was last edited on 18 May 2024, at 20:09 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...
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 .