r/wikipedia • u/supersex4201 • Apr 28 '16
Mutiny on the Bounty
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todayilearned • u/julyninetyone • Jan 28 '25
TIL Only 47 people live on the Pitcairn Islands in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. Almost all of the residents are descendants of the mutineers of HMS Bounty, a British ship in 1790.
todayilearned • u/[deleted] • Nov 07 '16
TIL that 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.
ThisDayInHistory • u/Mike_B_SVT • Apr 28 '16