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The world's 'most remote' island ‘owned' by UK 336 miles away from nearest neighbourand a baby girl), settled on Pitcairn Island and set fire to the Bounty. The ship is still visible underwater in Bounty Bay. The mutineers lived in isolation for some 20 years before coming into ...
On Pitcairn Island, a tiny, wooded, steep, craggy scrap of land in the South Pacific, they beached and burned the Bounty, hoped they were safe from reprisal. They were not safe from one another.
In January 1974 I visited and Pitcairn ... on his remote island. We became firm friends and when I was leaving he pressed these artefacts into my hand. These relics of HMS Bounty are sheathing ...
Today, the descendants of the mutineers of the Bounty still live on Pitcairn Island. The Royal Navy was ... Anchored in the bay, the ship was torn free and the wind drove her repeatedly against ...
The large piece of copper from HMS Bounty was retrieved from Pitcairn Island – where the ship was scuttled in 1790 – by a ...
As of July 2014, only 48 people call the Pitcairn Islands and their stunning rocky cliffs home. Back in 1789, British sailors in the Pacific mutinied on the HMS Bounty and settled on Tahiti and ...
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