"was announced Paramount would make a rival Bounty film to be written and directed by James Clavell called ""The Mutineers"", which would focus on the fate of the Muntineers on Pitcairn Island. However this project was not made. Brando eventually was signed, with Carol Reed to direct. It was decided to shoot the film in Tahiti itself to take advantage of color and widescreen, being shot in Cinema 65. Robert Surtees would be the cinematographer, The film was to start 15 October 1960 and the film was called ""MGM's ""Ben Hur"" of 1961."" A replica of the ""Bounty"" was built"
"in Bounty Bay. Although the settlers were able to survive by farming and fishing, the initial period of settlement was marked by serious tensions among the settlers. Alcoholism, murder, disease and other ills had taken the lives of most of the mutineers and Tahitian men. John Adams, Ned Young, and Matthew Quintal were the last three mutineers surviving in 1799 when Adams and Young got the thuggish Quintal drunk and killed him with a hatchet. Adams and Young then turned to the Scriptures using the ship's Bible as their guide for a new and peaceful society. As a result, Adams"
"Islands and set fire to the ""Bounty"". The wreck is still visible underwater in Bounty Bay, discovered in 1957 by ""National Geographic"" explorer Luis Marden. Although the settlers survived by farming and fishing, the initial period of settlement was marked by serious tensions among them. Alcoholism, murder, disease, and other ills took the lives of most mutineers and Tahitian men. John Adams and Ned Young turned to the scriptures, using the ship's Bible as their guide for a new and peaceful society. Young eventually died of an asthmatic infection. Ducie Island was rediscovered in 1791 by Royal Navy Captain Edwards"
"gives the island an average yearly population of 2 [(50*14+0*351)/365]. The Mutiny on the Bounty (1789) took place about from Tofua. Captain William Bligh navigated the overcrowded open launch on an epic 41-day voyage first to Tofua and then to Timor equipped only with a sextant and a pocket watch — no charts or compass. He recorded the distance as . He passed through the difficult Torres Strait along the way and landed on June 14. The only casualty of his voyage was a crewman named John Norton who was stoned to death by the natives of Tofua, the first"
"Bounty Islands The Bounty Islands are a small group of 13 uninhabited granite islets and numerous rocks, with a combined area of , in the south Pacific Ocean that are territorially part of New Zealand. They lie about east-south-east of the South Island of New Zealand, and south-west of the Chatham Islands. The group is a World Heritage Site. The islands are listed with the New Zealand Outlying Islands. The islands are an immediate part of New Zealand, but not part of any region or district, but instead ""Area Outside Territorial Authority"", like all the other outlying islands except the"
"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"
"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"
"boat during the Mutiny on the Bounty (1789). The Mutiny on the Bounty took place about 30 nautical miles (56 km) from Tofua in the Tonga islands. Lt William Bligh navigated the overcrowded 23 foot (7 m) open launch on an epic 41-day voyage first to Tofua and then to the West Timor city of Kupang equipped only with a sextant and a pocket watch— no charts or compass. He recorded the distance as 3,618 nautical miles (6710 km). He passed through the difficult Torres Strait along the way and landed on 14 June. The only casualty of his voyage"
"live ashore and care for the potted breadfruit plants, and they became socialized to the customs and culture of the Tahitians. ""Bounty"" departed with her breadfruit cargo on 4 April 1789. Part of the crew mutinied on 28 April 1789. , under Captain Edward Edwards, was sent from England to search for the ""Bounty"" and the mutineers. ""Pandora"" reached Tahiti on 23 March 1791 and recovered 14 crew members from ""Bounty"". On 8 May 1791 ""Pandora"" left Tahiti and subsequently spent three months in the South-West Pacific in search of the ""Bounty"" and the remaining mutineers, without finding any traces"
"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"
"part of Cook's group, translated). The next Europeans to arrive were the mutineers of the HMS ""Bounty"" in 1789. Mutineer Fletcher Christian, in looking for an island on which to permanently hide, had ""scoured"" Bligh's maps and nautical charts and decided on Tubuai. Upon arrival at Tubuai, a conflict arose while the mutineers were still on their ship and several islanders were killed in their canoes. The site of this event in the lagoon on the north side of the island is called ""Baie Sanglant"" (Bloody Bay). Mutineer James Morrison wrote: ""The Island is full of Inhabitants for its size"
"of New Guinea. Examination of the hand writing found no comparison with that of the first mate and the message was dismissed as a cruel hoax. In May 1870 a deputation from the families of those on board sought assistance from the New Zealand Premier, William Fox, to mount a search of the Bounty Islands in case the ship had been driven there by bad weather. On 29 June HMS ""Rosario"" sailed from Auckland to the Bounty Islands arriving on 8 July. Captain Palmer described the islands as barren, destitute, and exposed to the fury of the sea. They were"
"It was rediscovered by the British on 3 July 1767 on a voyage led by Captain Philip Carteret, and named after Robert Pitcairn, the crew member who first spotted the island. Pitcairn was one of the sons of John Pitcairn. On January 15, 1790, the mutineers of ""Bounty"" and their Tahitian companions arrived on the island. The group consisted of Fletcher Christian and eight other mutineers from the Bounty. These were Ned Young, John Adams, Matthew Quintal, William McCoy, William Brown, Isaac Martin, John Mills and John Williams. Also with them were six Polynesian men (Manarii/Menalee, Niau/Nehou, and Teirnua/Te Moa"
"1790, the Admiralty despatched the frigate HMS ""Pandora"" under Captain Edward Edwards to capture the mutineers and return them to England to stand trial. ""Pandora"" arrived at Tahiti on 23 March 1791 and, within a few days, all 14 surviving ""Bounty"" men had either surrendered or been captured. Edwards made no distinction between mutineers and those who claimed they had been detained on ""Bounty"" unwillingly; all were incarcerated in a specially constructed prison erected on ""Pandora""'s quarterdeck, dubbed ""Pandora's Box"". ""Pandora"" remained at Tahiti for five weeks while Captain Edwards unsuccessfully sought information on ""Bounty's"" whereabouts. The ship finally sailed"
"Boudeuse Island Boudeuse Cay is an uninhabited islet lying at the western edge of the Amirantes group, of the Outer Islands of the Republic of Seychelles, in the western Indian Ocean. It is located with a distance of 332 km south of Victoria, Seychelles. Boudeuse Cay was named after a ship used in Bougainville's famous voyage round the world, from 1766 to 1769. It was explored and named by the Chevalier du Roslan in 1771. Boudeuse Cay is the farthest southwestern feature on Amirante Bank, and the westernmost island of the chain. It is a one hectare sandstone platform island,"
"the coast of Inaccessible Island. The first, and most dramatic, was that of ""Blenden Hall"", a British ship which set sail in 1821 with 54 passengers and crew aboard with destination Bombay, now referred to as Mumbai. Captain Alexander Grieg intended to sail past Saint Helena, but adverse currents carried her to Tristan da Cunha. She got caught in seaweed and on 22 July drifted aground on Inaccessible Island. All but two of those aboard survived the shipwreck. They spent the next four months subsisting on wild celery, seals, penguins, and albatross. They managed to build a boat some months"
"after its official discovery in 1701 by Jacques Gouin de Beauchêne, seal trappers tried unsuccessfully to settle the island. In 1834, the American McArthur landed 100 people on the island, driving the local sea lions to extinction (they have since returned). Although the island is uninhabited, there are ruins of a group of houses built in the 1830s on the west side of the island. The first proper scientific expedition landed in 1951 by helicopter, staying for a month. During the Falklands War, there was an Argentine wreck on a reef just south of the islands, and British soldiers lived"
"Mānana Mānana Island is an uninhabited islet located off Kaupō Beach, near Makapuu at the eastern end of the Island of Oahu in the Hawaiian Islands. In the Hawaiian language, ""mānana"" means ""buoyant"". The islet is commonly referred to as Rabbit Island, because its shape as seen from the nearby Oahu shore looks something like a rabbit's head and because it was once inhabited by introduced rabbits. The rabbit colony was established by John Adams Cummins in the 1880s when he ran the nearby Waimānalo plantation. The rabbits were eradicated about a hundred years later because they were destroying the"
"Complement of HMS Bounty The complement of , the Royal Navy ship on which a historic mutiny occurred in the south Pacific on 28 April 1789, comprised 46 men on its departure from England in December 1787 and 44 at the time of the mutiny, including her commander Lieutenant William Bligh. All but two of those aboard were Royal Navy personnel; the exceptions were two civilian botanists engaged to supervise the breadfruit plants ""Bounty"" was tasked to take from Tahiti to the West Indies. Of the 44 aboard at the time of the mutiny, 19 (including Bligh) were set adrift"
"Samana Cay Samana Cay is now an uninhabited island in the Bahamas, believed by some researchers to have been the location of Columbus's first landfall in the Americas, on October 12, 1492. It is an islet, located in the eastern Bahamas, northeast of Acklins Island. About long and up to wide with an area of about it is bound by reefs. The verdant cay has long been uninhabited, but figurines, pottery shards, and other artifacts discovered there in the mid-1980s have been ascribed to Lucayan Indians living on the cay about the time of Christopher Columbus' voyages. The indigenous people"
"the descendants of the Bounty mutineers and the British government had obtained permission from the King of Tahiti for their resettlement on Tahiti. A dozen of the 86 islanders died in Tahiti due to their susceptibility to disease. For that reason, and, being homesick, they were returned to Pitcairn five months later. The vessel was back in Sydney by June 1831 where it was announced she would soon be offered for sale. In September that year she was sold out of government service. Her new owners, who paid £1,200, were the Weller brothers, who were in the process of establishing"
"In November 1790, Captain Edward Edwards—in command of HMS ""Pandora""—had sailed from England with orders to comb the Pacific for the mutineers of HMS ""Bounty"". In March of the following year, ""Pandora"" arrived at Tahiti and picked up 14 ""Bounty"" men who had stayed on that island. Although some of the 14 had not joined the mutiny, all were imprisoned and shackled in a cramped ""cage"" built on the deck, which the men grimly nicknamed ""Pandora's Box"". ""Pandora"" then left Tahiti in search of ""Bounty"" and the leader of the mutiny, Fletcher Christian. Captain Edwards' search for the remaining mutineers"
"Mutton Island Mutton Island is an uninhabited island in the Atlantic Ocean, off the coast of County Clare, Ireland, about from the mainland. The nearest village is Quilty, which is roughly from the island. It is used mainly for grazing sheep, and is host to several abandoned houses and two forts. There is no public ferry service to the island, on which there is no jetty or boat slipway. It contains no roofed buildings, but there is a limited supply of fresh water. The island was populated as late as the 1920s and is believed to have been part of"
"The Mutineers of the Bounty Mutineers of the Bounty () is a short story by Jules Verne. The story is based on British documents about the Mutiny on the ""Bounty"" and was published in 1879 together with the novel ""The Begum's Fortune"" (""Les cinq cents millions de la Bégum""), as a part of the series ""Les Voyages Extraordinaires"" (""The Extraordinary Voyages""). Unlike many authors covering the topic, Verne concentrates on the deposed captain of the ""Bounty"", William Bligh. After mutineers forced Bligh into the ""Bounty""'s 23-foot launch on 28 April 1789, he led loyal crew members on a 6,710 kilometer"
"and did not wake until after it was over. Thus, he neither participated in the mutiny nor was able to fight against it or join Bligh and others who left the ship in a long boat. Young was the only crew member to sleep through this ordeal. However, he soon announced that he fully supported Christian and the mutineers, and that he would never attempt to return to England. Young, Christian, and the rest of those who remained on the ""Bounty"" returned to Tahiti. Soon afterwards, Christian decided to sail away to an undiscovered island to evade capture by the"
"breakers and had to change course to the north and east. He had almost found the Great Barrier Reef. He sailed through what is now known as the Solomon Islands but, because of the hostility of the people there, avoided landing. He named Bougainville Island for himself. The expedition was attacked by people from New Ireland so the French expedition made for the Moluccas. At Batavia, they received news of Wallis and Carteret who had preceded Bougainville in discovering Tahiti. On 16 March 1769 the expedition completed its circumnavigation and arrived at St Malo. It had lost only seven of"
"the mainland until the year 804. Mutton Island Mutton Island is an uninhabited island in the Atlantic Ocean, off the coast of County Clare, Ireland, about from the mainland. The nearest village is Quilty, which is roughly from the island. It is used mainly for grazing sheep, and is host to several abandoned houses and two forts. There is no public ferry service to the island, on which there is no jetty or boat slipway. It contains no roofed buildings, but there is a limited supply of fresh water. The island was populated as late as the 1920s and is"
"1608, a trading fleet of the English East India Company set sail for India. Lost in a storm, the ""Ascension's"" crew saw ""high land"" on 19 January 1609 and headed for it. They anchored ""as in a pond"". They found an uninhabited island with plentiful fresh water, fish, coconuts, birds, turtles and giant tortoises with which to replenish their stores. The ""Ascension"" sailed, and reported what they had found, but the British took no action. Towards the end of the 17th century, pirates arrived in the Indian Ocean from the Caribbean and made a base in Madagascar, from where they"
"Inaccessible Islands The Inaccessible Islands (""Islas Inaccesibles"" in Spanish) are a group of small precipitous islands ranging from high, the westernmost features of the South Orkney Islands, lying west of Coronation Island in Antarctica. They were discovered in December 1821 by Captain George Powell, a British sealer in the sloop ""James Monroe"", though it is possible they are the ""Seal Islands"" seen by Nathaniel Palmer a year earlier. The islands were so named by Powell because of their appearance of inaccessibility. They are considered part of the British Antarctic Territory by the United Kingdom and part of the Province of"
"Eilean Mhic Coinnich Eilean Mhic Coinnich, also known as Mackenzie Island (although recorded on the Land Register as McKenseys Island), is an uninhabited island of , lying off the southern end of the Rinns of Islay peninsula on the Inner Hebridean island of Islay, Scotland. Lying just off the coast from the village of Portnahaven and north of the island of Orsay, Eilean Mhic Coinnich came onto the market in March 2008. At the time the vendor, Gilbert MacNab of Stirling, grazed cattle there. In 2010 it was available for offers ""in the region of £90,000"" and was sold for"
"Lulu Town Lulu Town is a now uninhabited, former settlement on Navassa Island, claimed by both the United States and neighbouring Haiti, in the Caribbean. Navassa Island was claimed for the United States on September 19, 1857, by Peter Duncan, an American sea captain, under the Guano Islands Act of August 18, 1856. The modest settlement was created to house both mine workers and supervisors whose goal was the rich deposits of guano found on Navassa. This resource, gathered mainly from the interior of the island, was stored in Lulu town for later shipment to the United States. Mining operations"
"examined all on board for signs of venereal disease and found none. ""Bounty"" came to anchor in Matavai Bay, Tahiti on 26 October 1788, concluding a journey of . Bligh's first action on arrival was to secure the co-operation of the local chieftains. The paramount chief Tynah remembered Bligh from Cook's voyage 15 years previously, and greeted him warmly. Bligh presented the chiefs with gifts and informed them that their own ""King George"" wished in return only breadfruit plants. They happily agreed with this simple request. Bligh assigned Christian to lead a shore party charged with establishing a compound in"
"a visit by scientists from Island Conservation Society. Once a widespread breeding species in Seychelles, the brown booby was wiped out except for a small number surviving at Cosmoledo. This is the first recorded recolonization of a Seychelles island by this species. Boudeuse Island Boudeuse Cay is an uninhabited islet lying at the western edge of the Amirantes group, of the Outer Islands of the Republic of Seychelles, in the western Indian Ocean. It is located with a distance of 332 km south of Victoria, Seychelles. Boudeuse Cay was named after a ship used in Bougainville's famous voyage round the"