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Miro Wood Carvings and the Pitcairners: Biogeography, Economics and Sustainability
(The Pitcairn Islands Study Group, 2022-01)
On April 28, 1789, Fletcher Christian deposited Lt. William Bligh and 18 loyalists in the HMAV Bounty’s launch in view of an erupting volcano on Tofua in the South Pacific Ocean. Miraculously, Bligh survived this epic ...
Mutiny on the Bounty - A Cornucopia of Fruits and Invectives
(The Pitcairn Log, 2022-07)
On April 28, 1789, the most infamous of mutinies occurred in the South Pacific Ocean within sight of an erupting volcano on Tofua. Acting Lieutenant Fletcher Christian deposed “Captain” William Bligh and eighteen men in ...
Circumstantial response to "Who shot Bounty mast with this small lead ball?"
(Pitcairn Log, 2022-10)
A circumstantial response to Herb Ford's question "Who shot the Bounty mast with this small lead ball?" Using primary and secondary sources the author examins different situations for plausibility.
Mary Ann Christian, Exercising Social and Spatial Agency: An Isolated Island Case
(Shima, 2022)
Mary Ann Christian (1793-1866) was the only daughter of chief Bounty mutineer Fletcher Christian and his Tahitian consort Mauatua who settled on Pitcairn Island in 1790. After a violent first decade, and one death to a ...