Pitcairn Islands Research Station
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A collection of papers and articles by Donald Albert on the HMS Bounty and the Pitcairn Islands
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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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
The Bounty's Primogeniture and the Thursday-Friday Conundrum Brief
(Pitcairn Log, 2020-04)One page summary of the research article "The Bounty's Primogeniture and the Thursday-Friday Conundrum" published in Athens Journal of Humanities & Arts in April 2020 -
Member Profile: Don Albert
(The Pitcairn Log, 2018-10)As a new member of the Pitcairn Islands Study Group (PISG), I would like to take an opportunity to introduce myself. I spent my youth in historic Salem, Massachusetts, living within view of Salem Harbor. Salem was an ... -
Charles Christian and His Contributions to Pitcairn History
(The Pitcairn Log, 2019-04)While Fletcher Christian has become widely known as the chief mutineer of the H.M.A.S. Bounty and subsequent leader of a nascent community on the remote and isolated Pitcairn Island, his progenies no less have enjoyed their ... -
The Jenny Interviews and Other Sightings: Needle(s) in the Proverbial Haystack(s)
(The Pitcairn Log, 2021-07)On April 28, 1789, acting Lieutenant Fletcher Christian disposed “Captain” William Bligh and 18 crew from the HMAV Bounty just of Tofua, South Pacific Ocean. Bligh’s successful open-boat journey to Timor ranks amongst the ... -
Did or Could Seabirds “Halo” Pitcairn Island for Fletcher Christian?
(Terrae Incognitae, 2018)How did Fletcher Christian, leader of the mutiny on the Bounty, find Pitcairn Island when the supposed location was 342 kilometers west its actual location? This study in applied historical geography explores whether ... -
The Bounty ̓s Primogeniture and the Thursday-Friday Conundrum
(Athens Institute for Education and Research (Athens Journal of Humanities & Arts), 2020-04)This is a biography of an obscure individual born of the ashes of the H.M.A.S. Bounty on the remote, inaccessible, and uninhabited Pitcairn Island in 1790. Thursday October Christian is best known to amateur and ... -
Teehuteatuaonoa aka ‘Jenny’, the most traveled woman on the Bounty: Chronicling female agency and island movements with Google Earth
(Institute of Island Studies, University of Prince Edward Island (Island Studies Journal), 2021)Teehuteatuaonoa (or ‘Jenny’ by her English nickname) was one of 12 Polynesian women reaching Pitcairn Island with the HMS Bounty mutineers in 1790. She was the most traveled of these women and the first to return to Tahiti ...
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