They are also challenging the applicability of British law to Pitcairn, saying that their ancestors had effectively renounced their British citizenship by committing an act of treason (the burning of the HMS Bounty), and that the islands were never lawfully incorporated into the British Empire.
In 1787-88 Captain Bligh made his ill-fated voyage on the Bounty to Tahiti to collect breadfruit and other useful plants for the West Indies.
In August 2012 Christian was interviewed by the Halifax Chronicle Herald, after she joined the volunteer crew of a replica of the original HMS Bounty, built by MGM for a film about the mutiny.
Coconut Chaos is both an investigation into the lives on Pitcairn Island of the HMS Bounty mutineers and their descendants, and a memoir of the author’s journey to Pitcairn.
The genus was named for both the ship HMS Bounty with which, following the famous mutiny, Europeans first discovered the Pitcairn Islands, and for the former bounty the bird provided as food; with the Greek phaps (wild pigeon).
More than thirty shipwrecks can be found off the coast of the island including HMS HMS Pandora, a vessel that in 1791 was involved in the capture of a group of mutineers from HMS HMS Bounty.
The first expedition was with HMS Bounty which had ended in the infamous mutiny led by Fletcher Christian and from which Bligh returned to England only with the greatest of difficulties.
Dropping by Van Dieman's Land to resupply, the Allegiance discovered William Bligh, late of the HMS Bounty, exiled there after being deposed in a military coup, and have since borne him to Sydney.
The British navigator William Bligh was the first European to sight the Yasawas in 1789, following the mutiny on the HMS Bounty.
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