"on 8 May, to search for Christian and ""Bounty"" among the thousands of southern Pacific islands. Apart from a few spars discovered at Palmerston Island, no traces of the fugitive vessel were found. Edwards continued the search until August, when he turned west and headed for the Dutch East Indies. On 29 August 1791, ""Pandora"" ran aground on the outer Great Barrier Reef. The men in ""Pandora's Box"" were ignored as the regular crew attempted to prevent the ship from foundering. When Edwards gave the order to abandon ship, ""Pandora""s armourer began to remove the prisoners' shackles, but the ship"
"denied the island's colonial status, and with it the United Kingdom's judicial authority. Defence lawyers for the seven accused men claimed that British sovereignty over the islands was unconstitutional: HMS ""Bounty"" mutineers, from whom almost all of the current island population is descended (together with Polynesians), had effectively renounced their British citizenship by committing a capital offence in the burning of the ""Bounty"" in 1790, they said. According to the Public Defender of the Pitcairn Islands Paul Dacre (who was appointed in 2003), islanders still celebrated this act annually by burning an effigy of the ""Bounty"" in a symbolic rejection"
"seven other mutineers. They took with them eleven Tahitian women and six men. After months at sea, the mutineers discovered the uninhabited Pitcairn Island and settled there in January 1790. It was Quintal who burned the ""Bounty"" in order to prevent any return, and as a safety precaution, to avoid having the ship give away their location to the British Navy. After three years, a conflict broke out between the Tahitian men and the mutineers, resulting in the deaths of all the Tahitian men and five of the Englishmen (including Fletcher Christian). Quintal was one of the survivors. One of"
"Bounty Day Bounty Day is a holiday on both Pitcairn Island, destination of the HMS ""Bounty"" mutineers, and on Norfolk Island. It is celebrated on 23 January on Pitcairn, and on 8 June on Norfolk Island, the day that the descendants of the mutineers arrived on the island. It is named for the ""Bounty"", although the ship never saw Norfolk Island. Bounty Day is celebrated on Pitcairn Island on 23 January, in commemoration of the burning of the HMS ""Bounty"" by the mutineers in 1790. Model replicas, made by the islanders, are burned. Bounty Day is the national holiday of"
"the 1775 Battle of Bunker Hill in the American Revolution. Carteret, who sailed without the newly-invented marine chronometer, charted the island at , and although the latitude was reasonably accurate, his recorded longitude was incorrect by about 3° (330 km, 210 mi) west of the island. This made Pitcairn difficult to find, as highlighted by the failure of Captain James Cook to locate the island in July 1773. In 1790 nine of the mutineers from the ""Bounty"", along with the native Tahitian men and women who were with them (six men, eleven women, and a baby girl), settled on Pitcairn"
"member who was the first to sight the island. These words, recorded in Carteret’s log, describe the first sighting. Robert Pitcairn was a son of British Marine Major John Pitcairn, who later was killed at the Battle of Bunker Hill in the American Revolution. In 1790, nine of the mutineers from the ""Bounty"", along with the native Tahitian men and women who were with them (six men, eleven women and a baby girl), settled on Pitcairn Islands and set fire to the ""Bounty"". The wreck is still visible underwater in Bounty Bay, discovered in 1957 by ""National Geographic"" explorer Luis"
"were found guilty, only three were executed - Millward, Burkitt and Ellison who were executed on 29 October 1792 on board the ""Brunswick"" man of war at Portsmouth. Peter Heywood and James Morrison received a Royal pardon, while William Muspratt was acquitted on a legal technicality. Descendants of the nine mutineers not discovered by ""Pandora"" still live on Pitcairn Island, the refuge Fletcher Christian founded in January 1790 and where they burnt and scuttled the ""Bounty"" a few weeks after arrival. Their hiding place was not discovered until 1808 when the New England sealer ""Topaz"" (Captain Mayhew Folger) happened on"
"Coleman, McIntosh and others—generally vanished from the public eye after the closing of the procedures. After leaving Tahiti on 22 September 1789, Christian sailed ""Bounty"" west in search of a safe haven. He then formed the idea of settling on Pitcairn Island, far to the east of Tahiti; the island had been reported in 1767, but its exact location was never verified. After months of searching, Christian rediscovered the island on 15 January 1790, east of its recorded position. This longitudinal error contributed to the mutineers' decision to settle on Pitcairn. On arrival the ship was unloaded and stripped of"
"the mutineers' lives on Pitcairn. Christian was portrayed in films by: The 1935 and 1962 films are based on the 1932 novel ""Mutiny on the Bounty"" in which Christian is a major character and is generally portrayed positively. The authors of that novel, Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall, also wrote two sequels, one of which, ""Pitcairn's Island"", is the story of the tragic events after the mutiny that apparently resulted in Christian's death along with other violent deaths on Pitcairn Island. (The other sequel, ""Men Against the Sea"", is the story of Bligh's voyage after the mutiny.) This series"
"Ned Young Edward ""Ned"" Young (c. 1762 – 25 December 1800), was a British sailor, mutineer from the famous HMS ""Bounty"" incident, and co-founder of the mutineers' Pitcairn Island settlement. Young was born on the West Indian island of St. Kitts. He apparently came from a poor family, but he did attend school. He joined the crew of HMS ""Bounty"" as a midshipman in 1787 when she sailed from England to Tahiti. After the ""Bounty"" departed from Tahiti in 1789 several sailors and officers, including Fletcher Christian, mutinied against its captain, Lieutenant William Bligh. Young was asleep during the mutiny,"
"on 23 January 1790 in what is now called Bounty Bay. The mutineers remained undetected on Pitcairn until February 1808, when sole remaining mutineer John Adams and the surviving Tahitian women and their children were discovered by the Boston sealer ""Topaz"", commanded by Captain Mayhew Folger of Nantucket, Massachusetts. Seventeen years later, in 1825, , on a voyage of exploration under Captain Frederick William Beechey, arrived on Christmas Day off Pitcairn and spent 19 days there. Captain Beechey later recorded this in his 1831 published account of the voyage, as did one of his crew, John Bechervaise, in his 1839"
"""Pandora"" to apprehend the mutineers. Fourteen were captured in Tahiti and imprisoned on board ""Pandora"", which then searched without success for Christian's party that had hidden on Pitcairn Island. After turning back towards England, ""Pandora"" ran aground on the Great Barrier Reef, with the loss of 31 crew and four prisoners from ""Bounty"". The 10 surviving detainees reached England in June 1792 and were court martialled; four were acquitted, three were pardoned and three were hanged. Christian's group remained undiscovered on Pitcairn until 1808, by which time only one mutineer, John Adams, remained alive. Almost all his fellow-mutineers, including Christian,"
"Pompton Mutiny The Pompton Mutiny, also referred to as the Federal Hill Rebellion, was a revolt of Continental Army troops at Pompton Camp in what was then Pompton Township, New Jersey, present-day Bloomingdale, New Jersey, that occurred on January 20, 1781, beneath the command of Colonel Israel Shreve. Acting beneath the auspices of Sergeants David Gilmore, John Tuttle, George Grant and the disguisement of copious amounts of spirits, about 300 soldiers from the New Jersey Line of the Continental Army mutinied. These soldiers began to make their way to Trenton to issue demands for a redress of grievances to the"
"Pitcairn Island. Meanwhile, Bligh completed a voyage of more than 3,500 nautical miles (6,500 km; 4,000 mi) to the west in the launch to reach safety north of Australia in the Dutch East Indies (modern Indonesia) and began the process of bringing the mutineers to justice. In 1787, Bligh took command of ""Bounty."" In order to win a premium offered by the Royal Society, he first sailed to Tahiti to obtain breadfruit trees, then set course east across the South Pacific for South America and the Cape Horn and eventually to the Caribbean Sea, where breadfruit was wanted for experiments"
"resisted, the mutiny. The remaining nine mutineers, six Tahitian men and eleven Tahitian women then sailed eastward. In time, they landed on Pitcairn Island, where they stripped ""Bounty"" of all that could be floated ashore before Matthew Quintal set it on fire, stranding them. The resulting sexual imbalance, combined with the effective enslavement of the Tahitian men by the mutineers, led to insurrection and the deaths of most of the men. The American seal-hunting ship ""Topaz"" visited Pitcairn in 1808 and found only one mutineer, John Adams (who had used the alias Alexander Smith while on ""Bounty""), still alive along"
"British navy. Young, seven mutineers, and some Tahitians joined him. They landed and settled at Pitcairn, a small and remote island. After several years of living peacefully on the island, the Tahitian men grew tired of being treated badly, and not having as much access to the women as their white counterparts. Tension was also added by the pressure put on the colony by increasing alcoholism, after a small distillery was built by the mutineers. Young himself took charge of the distillery and brewed a primitive alcohol. In October 1793, a war broke out between the mutineers and the four"
"journal kept by one of Christian's followers, the Tahitians were actually kidnapped when Christian set sail without warning them, the purpose of this being to acquire the women. The mutineers passed through the Fiji and Cook Islands, but feared that they would be found there. Continuing their quest for a safe haven, on 15 January 1790 they rediscovered Pitcairn Island, which had been misplaced on the Royal Navy's charts. After the decision was made to settle on Pitcairn, livestock and other provisions were removed from the ""Bounty"". To prevent the ship's detection, and anyone's possible escape, the ship was burned"
"Pitcairn Islanders Pitcairn Islanders also referred to as Pitkerners, are the inhabitants or citizens of the Pitcairn Islands. The Pitcairn Islands is a nation, mainly inhabited by Euronesians of British and Tahitian descent. The culture held in common by most Pitcairn Islanders is mainstream Pitcairn culture, a mixture of British and Polynesian culture derived from the traditions of the settlers who landed in 1790. Most of the people today are descended from the HMS ""Bounty"" mutineers of English, Cornish, Manx, Scottish descent and the Tahitian companions, including the few who settled afterwards. As of 2018, there are a total of"
"in the ship's launch, while 25, a mixture of mutineers and detainees, remained on board under Fletcher Christian. Bligh led his loyalists to safety in the open boat, and ultimately back to England. The mutineers divided—most settled on Tahiti, where they were captured by in 1791 and returned to England for trial, while Christian and eight others evaded discovery on Pitcairn Island. The Admiralty rated ""Bounty"" as a cutter, the smallest category of warship—this meant that she was commanded not by a captain but by a lieutenant, with no other commissioned officers aboard, and without the usual detachment of Royal"
"Bounty Bible The ""Bounty"" Bible is a Bible that is thought to have been used on HMS ""Bounty"", the ship famed for the Mutiny on the ""Bounty"". In January 1790, nine of the mutineers from the ship and their Tahitian companions (six men, eleven women and a baby) settled on Pitcairn Island, having anchored HMS ""Bounty"" in a small bay on the northern side of the island and set it on fire after everything of utility was landed. Pitcairn had ample food, water and land for everyone and a mild climate. However after four years the community was in turmoil"
"try the Pitcairn sexual assault trial of 2004. The tribunal's first decision was whether to accept the defence claim that the Pitcairn Islands were not in fact legally British territory and had not been such since at least the time that the original settlers, the mutineers of the ""Bounty"", burned the vessel in a symbolic (and, from the defence viewpoint, actual) rejection of further British sovereignty and rule. The Supreme Court ruled that the Pitcairns were in fact British territory and were generally internationally recognised to be such and that the trial was thus legal. The Court later (October 23)"
"the consent of the local tribes excepting the ""Typees"" from the Tai Pi Valley, took possession of Nuku Hiva of behalf of the British Crown. Nearly three weeks later, on the return journey to Valparaiso, ""Briton"" and ""Tagus"" made landfall at the then little known island of Pitcairn. Unbeknownst to anyone aboard the two visiting ships, the only surviving mutineer from the Fletcher Christian led 1789 Mutiny on the Bounty, John Adams, remained alive on Pitcairn. Although Mayhew Folger aboard the American trading ship ""Topaz"" had paid a brief visit to the island in 1808 and the Admiralty in London"
"and ""Discovery"" returned home in October 1780 commanded by John Gore, a veteran of Cook's first voyage, and Captain James King. After their arrival in England, King completed Cook's account of the voyage. In 1789 the Mutiny on the Bounty against William Bligh led to several of the mutineers escaping the Royal Navy and settling on Pitcairn Islands, which later became a British colony. Britain also established colonies in Australia in 1788, New Zealand in 1840 and Fiji in 1872, with much of Oceania becoming part of the British Empire. The Gilbert Islands (now known as Kiribati) and the Ellice"
"ham radio operator, and as a member of the territory's governing council, among many other roles. Warren was born on Pitcairn Island on 28 June 1959, the second child of Jacob Ralph ""Chippie"" Warren (1920–2007) and Mavis Mary Brown (born 1936). Warren is the sister of Jay Warren (born 1950) who served as the third mayor of the Pitcairn Islands (2004–2007), and previously as the colony's 29th magistrate (1991–1997). She is a first cousin of Mike Warren (born 1964), the colony's fourth mayor (2007–2014). She is the descendant of mutineers from the famed Mutiny on the ""Bounty"" (1789) and of"
"found the defendants to be guilty of the sexual offences alleged against them, which created turmoil as the defendants included the islands' mayor, Steve Christian, direct descendant of leading ""Bounty"" mutineer Fletcher Christian. Steve Christian's sister was then installed as mayor until a new election could be held for a new island government. Pitcairn Supreme Court The Pitcairn Supreme Court is the supreme court of the Pitcairn Islands, a British Overseas Territory. It is a superior court of record. Provisions for a supreme court were set out in amendments to the Old Constitution Order in the 1990s. The court first"
"Descendants of the Bounty mutineers The descendants of the ""Bounty"" mutineers and their Tahitian consorts include the modern-day Pitcairn Islanders as well as a little less than half of the population of Norfolk Island. Their descendants also live in New Zealand, Australia, and the United States. Because of the scarcity of people on the island, many of the mutineers' children and grandchildren intermarried, with some marrying cousins and second cousins. Occasionally a new person would arrive on the island bringing with them a new surname (like the American Samuel Russell Warren, whose descendants still live on the island today). Fletcher"
"table below. Four were detained against their will on the ""Bounty"" for their needed skills and for lack of space on the long boat. The mutineers first returned to Tahiti, where most of the survivors were later captured by the ""Pandora"" and taken to England for trial. Nine mutineers continued their flight from the law and eventually settled Pitcairn Island, where all but one died before their fate became known to the outside world. Luis Marden discovered the remains of the ""Bounty"" in January 1957. After spotting remains of the rudder (which had been found in 1933 by Parkin Christian,"
"Matthew Quintal Matthew Quintal (baptised 3 March 1766 as Mathew Quintril, Padstow, Cornwall – 1799, Pitcairn Island) was a Cornish able seaman and mutineer aboard HMS ""Bounty"". His surname was, in all probability, the result of misspelling the Cornish surname ""Quintrell"". He was the last of the mutineers to be murdered on Pitcairn Island. He was murdered by Ned Young and John Adams, leaving them the last two men alive on the island. Following the mutiny led by Fletcher Christian, the ""Bounty"" was taken to Tahiti for a few days before being compelled to set sail. Quintal joined Christian and"
"and Elizabeth Bligh's marriage certificate, a prayer book, and other artifacts. On 15 October 1940 the Pitcairn Islands Post Office opened with the release of the first Pitcairn Islands postage stamps; the 4d (fourpence) value issued on 1 September 1951 features an illustration of the Bible. Bounty Bible The ""Bounty"" Bible is a Bible that is thought to have been used on HMS ""Bounty"", the ship famed for the Mutiny on the ""Bounty"". In January 1790, nine of the mutineers from the ship and their Tahitian companions (six men, eleven women and a baby) settled on Pitcairn Island, having anchored"
"of 600 British Marines assigned to support the British forces in the increasingly resistive colony. John Pitcairn was respected by the citizens in Boston as one of the more reasonable officers in the occupying force. He was in command of the advance party that marched on Lexington and Concord on 19 April 1775, which began the American War of Independence. His horse was shot from under him, and he lost a pair of matched pistols when the column's baggage was abandoned. Patriot leader Israel Putnam would carry them through the rest of the war. At the Battle of Bunker Hill"
"justice. Thomas Ellison (mutineer) Thomas Ellison (1772 – 29 October 1792) was an able seaman on His Majesty's Armed Ship ""Bounty"". After participating in the Mutiny on the ""Bounty"" on 28 April 1789, he remained in Tahiti rather than continuing on to the Pitcairn Islands with the inner core of the mutineers, and in 1791 voluntarily turned himself in to the seamen of HMS ""Pandora"" to face justice in England. He was court-martialed at Spithead in September 1792, sentenced to death, and hanged on 29 October. Questions continue as to the degree of Ellison's culpability in the mutiny. Ellison, although"
"compares with an increase of 15.5 percent between 2001 and 2006. Ethnic identity: Pitcairn Islanders Pitcairn Islanders also referred to as Pitkerners, are the inhabitants or citizens of the Pitcairn Islands. The Pitcairn Islands is a nation, mainly inhabited by Euronesians of British and Tahitian descent. The culture held in common by most Pitcairn Islanders is mainstream Pitcairn culture, a mixture of British and Polynesian culture derived from the traditions of the settlers who landed in 1790. Most of the people today are descended from the HMS ""Bounty"" mutineers of English, Cornish, Manx, Scottish descent and the Tahitian companions, including"
"Solander Islands. Captain William Bligh discovered the Bounty Islands en route from Spithead to Tahiti in 1788 and named them after his ship, HMS ""Bounty"", just months before the famous mutiny. The location of the islands were only roughly marked on charts. In early 1866 Commander W. H. Norman of HMCS Victoria was tasked with determining more accurately their position. He reported them as being latitude 47ˈ50 South and longitude 179ˈ00 East. Captain George Palmer, during the search for the ""Matoaka"" placed the islands at 47ˈ46ˈ24 South 178ˈ56ˈ45 East. Palmer also annexed the islands for New Zealand. During the 19th"