Hms Bounty facts

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There are islands in the Pacific that have been inhabited by the Mutineers of the HMS Bounty, the Tahitians they brought with them, and their descendants for over 200 years.

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Almost the entire population of Pitcairn Island is descended from the 9 mutineers who captured HMS Bounty from Captain Bligh, and that the burned wreck of the Bounty is still visible underwater in Bounty Bay at Pitcairn Island.

What happened to the hms bounty?

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1. The replica HMS Bounty built for the film "Mutiny on the Bounty," was afloat for 4 decades before sinking after she was inexplicably sailed into the eye of Hurricane Sandy in 2012.

2. The next total solar eclipse will be visible from Pitcairn Island, the island which is home to the descendants from the HMS Bounty mutineers.

3. British sailors searching for the mutineers of the HMS Bounty saw the smoke signals of the stranded French explorer Jean-François de Galaup but ignored them, knowing the mutineers wouldn't advertise their whereabouts.

4. Adamstown, the capital city of the Pitcairn islands (a country in the South Pacific) has a population of only 48 people. Almost all of which are descendants of the HMS Bounty which was a British merchant vessel that settled on the islands in 1790.

5. A descendant of mutineer Fletcher Christian died when a replica of the HMS Bounty she was aboard sank in Hurricane Sandy.

6. Sailors from the sunken Essex (the inspiration for Moby Dick) made it to Henderson Island but quickly depleted its resources. If they had found Pitcairn Island (107 miles away) they would have been helped by a small population of the descendants from another ship - mutineers from the HMS Bounty.

7. Adamstown in the Pitcairn Islands, is the smallest Capitol in the world, inhabited almost exclusively by descendants of the original mutineers of the HMS Bounty. It is inaccessible by helicopter or airplane.

8. Pitcairn Island is populated by just 50 permanent residents directly descended from 27 mutineers and Tahitians from the HMS Bounty, who hid from the Royal Navy there in 1790 and never left. It was also the sight of a major sexual abuse scandal involving the mayor.

9. Google Maps allows you to virtually hike across Pitcairn Island (where the mutineers of the HMS Bounty were exiled)

10. Claudene Christian, who claimed to be a lineal descendant of Bounty mutineer Fletcher Christian, died aboard a replica of the orginal HMS Bounty after it sailed into Hurricane Sandy.

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Google Maps allows you to virtually hike across Pitcairn Island (The world's most remote and least populous national jurisdiction where the mutineers of the HMS Bounty were exiled).