Mutiny on the Bounty: Bligh Set Adrift, Fletcher Christian Takes the Ship
Lieutenant William Bligh and eighteen loyal sailors survive a harrowing open-boat voyage after the rebel crew casts them adrift from the Bounty, eventually returning to Tahiti before establishing a settlement on Pitcairn Island. This audacious mutiny created a unique human experiment that resulted in the only known case of a successful long-term isolationist community founded by British sailors and their Polynesian companions.
April 28, 1789
237 years ago
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Pitcairn Island
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Mutiny on the Bounty
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Captain (Royal Navy)
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William Bligh
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Tahiti
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Tonga
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Pitcairn Islands
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Tahiti
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Mutiny on the Bounty
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William Bligh
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Pitcairn Island
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HMS Bounty
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Fletcher Christian
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Kupang
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Gehorsamsverweigerung
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