Today, January 23, is celebrated as Bounty Day on Pitcairn Island. It commemorates the final chapter
Today, January 23, is celebrated as Bounty Day on Pitcairn Island. It commemorates the final chapter of the mutiny aboard the HMS Bounty, which had begun in April 1789. After eight months of hardship, the remaining mutineers arrived at Pitcairn Island and, finding it uninhabited and fertile, set the Bounty ablaze on January 23, 1790. This illustration shows the home of the last surviving mutineer, John Adams, on the island. Today, Pitcairn Island has a population of roughly 50, all descended from the mutineers and a number of kidnapped Tahitians.Image from:John Barrow’s A description of Pitcairn’s Island and its inhabitants. New-York: Harper & Brothers, 1845.Call Number: G530 .B3 1845Catalog record: https://bit.ly/37ld9ep -- source link
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