Bounty Folk Museum
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How did a piece of the rudder of the HMAV Bountyfrom the first voyage to introduce breadfruit from Tahiti to British colonies in the Caribbeanend up in the Fiji Museum in Suva? After the mutiny in 1789 the Bounty sailed for Tahiti where most of the mutineers stayed, only to end up being tracked down by the British Navy and returned to England for trial. The rest sailed on to remote Pitcairn Island where they stripped and burned the ship, sinking her in the bay. In 1932 all ...Continue reading

Reclaiming the Bounty - by Nigel Erskine January 23, 1790. The voyage of HMS Bounty ends at Pitcairn Island. A Polynesian woman, Jenny, who arrives with the mutineers, describes the event: [Fletcher] Christian got the vessel under a rocky point and came to anchor. The mutineers began to discharge the ship, by means of a raft made out of hatches. The property from the ship was landed principally on the raft, by means of a rope fastened to the rocks. When all they wanted was br...Continue reading

Bounty Folk Museums collection of Norfolk Island whaling history and memorabilia.

The Bounty’s last relics. In January 1957, Luis Marden, a writer and photographer for National Geographic was the first person to discover the exact location of the burnt remains of the HMAV Bounty. Captain Jones and Parkin Christian had, on separate occasions grappled timbers and the rudder to the surface, but the whereabouts of the remains in the rough seas of Bounty Bay was still an unknown. I Found the Bones of the Bounty in the December 1957 edition of National Geograp...Continue reading

The Bounty Folk Museums collection of Original Antique Guns used on Norfolk Island.

EDGE OF THE WORLD - Part 1. A small dot in the vast Pacific Ocean, Pitcairn Island is best known for its links to Fletcher Christian, Captain William Bligh and the mutiny aboard the HMS Bounty. But the Pitkerners are also doing their best to move with the times, to grow their dwindling population, and attract more people, in order to survive....Continue reading

The Bounty Folk Museum is currently closed for renovations and will reopen in February.

Norfolk Island: Curious castaways in anyone's language. (Traveller Magazine - Max Anderson.) The Burnt Pine Bowling Club is no different to any lawn green bowls club in Australia. Beige decor. Faded team photos. Blokes with accents as broad as a Kingswood front seat....Continue reading

EDGE OF THE WORLD - Part 2 Pitcairn’s Tahitian foremothers called it Hitiaurevareva, the island far away. Living in one of the world’s most inaccessible places can be challenging But Pitkerners relish what they have - rather than what they miss. Journalists Andrea Vance and Iain McGregor went to meet with the islanders whose blood flows down through two centuries from the Bounty mutineers....Continue reading

Norfolk Island has the world's only telephone directory to list people by nickname. They include: Beef, Cane Toad, Carrots and Chilla Dar Bizziebee, Duck and Diesel Honkey-dorey, Kik Kik and Grin Lettuce Leaf Mutty, Moose, Morg and Moonie Onion.