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  • Bounty Islands, a small group of 13 islets and numerous rocks in the south Pacific Ocean which are territorially part of New Zealand.
  • Bounty Island, the common name of Kadavulailai Island in the Mamanuca Islands group, Fiji.

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Bounty Island

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Bounty Island may refer to: Bounty Islands, a small group of 13 islets and numerous rocks in the south Pacific Ocean which are territorially part of New...

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Bounty Islands

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The Bounty Islands (Māori: Moutere Hauriri; "Island of angry wind") are a small group of uninhabited granite islets and numerous rocks, with a combined...

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HMS Bounty

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popularly known as the Mutiny on the Bounty. The mutineers later burned Bounty while she was moored at Pitcairn Island in the Southern Pacific Ocean in 1790...

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Bounty Trough

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South Island. It is named after the Bounty Islands near the Eastern end of the trough. The islands, in turn, are named after HMS Bounty. The Bounty Trough...

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Mutiny on the Bounty

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The mutiny on the Royal Navy vessel HMS Bounty occurred in the South Pacific Ocean on 28 April 1789. Disaffected crewmen, led by acting-Lieutenant Fletcher...

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Bounty

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Look up bounty or bounties in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Bounty or bounties commonly refers to: Bounty (reward), an amount of money or other reward...

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Pitcairn Island

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of mutineers of HMS Bounty. The island is of volcanic origin, with a rugged cliff coastline. Unlike many other South Pacific islands, it is not surrounded...

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Bounty Bay

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Bounty Bay is an embayment of the Pacific Ocean into Pitcairn Island. It is named after the Bounty, a British naval vessel whose eighteenth-century mutiny...

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Mamanuca Islands

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Mamanuca Islands (Fijian: [mamaˈnuða]) of Fiji are a volcanic archipelago lying to the west of Nadi and to the south of the Yasawa Islands. The group...

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History of the Pitcairn Islands

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Henderson Islands, and on Mangareva Island 540 kilometres (340 mi) to the northwest, for about 400 years. In 1790, nine of the Englishmen from the Bounty led...

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Pitcairn Islands

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as well as Easter Island, 1,929 km to the east. The Pitcairn Islanders are a biracial ethnic group descended mostly from nine Bounty mutineers and a handful...

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Fletcher Christian

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sailor who led the mutiny on the Bounty in 1789, during which he seized command of the Royal Navy vessel HMS Bounty from Lieutenant William Bligh. In...

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Complement of HMS Bounty

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while Christian and eight others evaded discovery on Pitcairn Island. The Admiralty rated Bounty as a cutter, the smallest category of warship—this meant that...

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Descendants of the Bounty mutineers

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descendants of the Bounty mutineers include the modern-day Pitcairn Islanders as well as a little less than half of the population of Norfolk Island. Their common...

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Bounty Day

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Bounty Day is a holiday on both Pitcairn Island, destination of the Bounty mutineers, and on Norfolk Island. It is celebrated on 23 January on Pitcairn...

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Ischyroplectron

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isolatum. I isolatum or the Bounty Island wētā, is a cave wētā in the family Rhaphidophoridae, endemic to Bounty Island of New Zealand. It is found under...

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New Zealand Subantarctic Islands

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Islands Auckland Island, Adams Island, Disappointment Island, Enderby Island, Ewing Island, Rose Island Bounty Islands Main Group, Centre Group, and Eastern...

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Bounty shag

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The Bounty shag (Leucocarbo ranfurlyi), also known as the Bounty Island shag, is a species of cormorant of the family Phalacrocoracidae. They are found...

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In the Wake of the Bounty

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In the Wake of the Bounty (1933) is an Australian film directed by Charles Chauvel about the 1789 Mutiny on the Bounty. It is notable as the screen debut...

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Antipodes Subantarctic Islands tundra

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Islands tundra ecoregion, within the tundra biome, includes five remote island groups in the Pacific Ocean south of New Zealand: the Bounty Islands,...

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Bounty Bible

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and a baby) settled on Pitcairn Island, having anchored HMS Bounty in a small bay on the northern side of the island and set her on fire after everything...

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Pitcairn Islanders

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maintaining cultural connections. Most Pitcairn Islanders are descendants of the Bounty mutineers. The mainstream Pitcairn culture is a mixture of British (specifically...

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