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About a thousand residents of Norfolk Island (half its population) trace their lineage from Fletcher Christian and the eight other British sailors.The Abbott and Costello Cartoon Show is an American half-hour animated series of the famous comedy duo that aired in syndication from September 9, 1967, to June 1, 1968.
Today, just a few dozen live on Pitcairn Island, and all but a handful are descendants of the Bounty mutineers. However, less than two years later, 17 of the islanders returned to Pitcairn, followed by more families in 1864. In 1856, the islanders were removed to Norfolk Island, a former penal colony nearly 4,000 miles to the west. By 1855, Pitcairn’s population had grown to nearly 200, and the two-square-mile island could not sustain its residents. In 1838, the Pitcairn Islands, which includes three nearby uninhabited islands, was incorporated into the British Empire. In 1831, the Pitcairn islanders were resettled on Tahiti, but unsatisfied with life there they soon returned to their native island. In 1825, a British ship arrived and formally granted Adams amnesty, and he served as patriarch of the Pitcairn community until his death in 1829. According to Adams, after settling on Pitcairn the colonists had stripped and burned the Bounty, and internal strife and sickness had led to the death of Fletcher and all the men but him. The Americans discovered a community of children and women led by John Adams, the sole survivor of the original nine mutineers. In 1808, an American whaling vessel was drawn to Pitcairn by smoke from a cooking fire. A British ship searched for Christian and the others but did not find them. The mutineers who remained on Tahiti were captured and taken back to England where three were hanged. In January 1790, the Bounty settled on Pitcairn Island, an isolated and uninhabited volcanic island more than 1,000 miles east of Tahiti. Christian and eight others, together with six Tahitian men, a dozen Tahitian women, and a child, decided to search the South Pacific for a safe haven. Unsuccessful in their colonizing effort, the Bounty sailed north to Tahiti, and 16 crewmen decided to stay there, despite the risk of capture by British authorities. Meanwhile, Christian and his men attempted to establish themselves on the island of Tubuai. Bligh returned to England and soon sailed again to Tahiti, from where he successfully transported breadfruit trees to the West Indies. By remarkable seamanship, however, Bligh and his men reached Timor in the East Indies on June 14, 1789, after a voyage of about 3,600 miles. By setting him adrift in an overcrowded 23-foot-long boat in the middle of the Pacific, Christian and his conspirators had apparently handed him a death sentence. Bligh, who eventually would fall prey to a total of three mutinies in his career, was an oppressive commander and insulted those under him. On April 28, near the island of Tonga, Christian and 25 petty officers and seamen seized the ship. On April 4, 1789, the Bounty departed Tahiti with its store of breadfruit saplings. Fletcher Christian fell in love with a Tahitian woman named Mauatua. On Tahiti, the crew enjoyed an idyllic life, reveling in the comfortable climate, lush surroundings and the hospitality of the Tahitians. After a 10-month journey, the Bounty arrived in Tahiti in October 1788 and remained there for more than five months. There, the breadfruit would serve as food for enslaved passengers.
In December 1787, the Bounty left England for Tahiti in the South Pacific, where it was to collect a cargo of breadfruit saplings to transport to the West Indies. Captain William Bligh and 18 of his loyal supporters were set adrift in a small, open boat, and the Bounty set course for Tubuai south of Tahiti. Three weeks into a journey from Tahiti to the West Indies, the HMS Bounty is seized in a mutiny led by Fletcher Christian, the master’s mate.
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