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Pitcairn Island Museum
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Established2005
LocationPitcairn Island
TypeHistory and archaeology
Websitehttps://www.government.pn/museum.html

Pitcairn Island Museum is a museum in Pitcairn Island, a British Overseas Territory in the southern Pacific Ocean. Established in 2005, the museum's collection includes archaeological material from the earliest Polynesian settlers, as well as artefacts from HMS Bounty.

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History of the Pitcairn Islands

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Bounty Museum

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for the early settlers from Pitcairn Island. The exhibition “Captain Bligh, Myth, Man & Mutiny” also forms part of the Museum. This exhibition tells the...

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Mutiny on the Bounty

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mutineers to justice. The mutineers variously settled on Tahiti or on Pitcairn Island. Bounty had left England in 1787 on a mission to collect and transport...

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Fletcher Christian

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Tahitian women settled on isolated Pitcairn Island, where they stripped and burned the vessel. Christian died on Pitcairn, possibly killed in a conflict with...

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Meralda Warren

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poet of the Pitcairn Islands, a remote British Overseas Territory in the South Pacific. She works in both English and Pitkern, the island's distinctive...

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1764 – 19 September 1841) was a Tahitian tapa maker, who settled on Pitcairn Island with the Bounty mutineers. She married both Fletcher Christian and...

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Teraura

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Susannah Young (c. 1775 – July 1850), was a Tahitian woman who settled on Pitcairn Island with the Bounty Mutineers. She took part in Ned Young's plot to murder...

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Norfolk Island Museum

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and Pitcairn Island; Sirius Museum - a maritime museum dedicated to HMS Sirius; Commissariat Store - housing archaeological displays; Norfolk Island Research...

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Norfolk Islanders (Pitcairn-Norfolk: Norfuk Aileners), also referred to as just Islanders, are the inhabitants or residents of Norfolk Island, an external territory...

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List of mammals of Pitcairn

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This is a list of the mammal species recorded in Pitcairn. There are four mammal species in Pitcairn, all of which are marine mammals of the order Cetacea...

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Bounty Bible

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women 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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Norfolk Island

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residence on the island began when descendants of the Bounty mutineers were relocated from Pitcairn Island. In 1914, the UK handed Norfolk Island over to Australia...

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Mayhew Folger

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whaler who captained the sealing ship Topaz that rediscovered the Pitcairn Islands in 1808, whilst one of HMS Bounty's mutineers was still living. Mayhew...

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HMS Bounty

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Georgian period house Pier Store - museum of the Bounty Mutineers and Pitcairn Island Sirius Museum - maritime museum dedicated to HMS Sirius Commissariat...

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YWAM Koha

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provided the essential transport links to the remote Pacific territory of Pitcairn Island from New Zealand and French Polynesia, part-funded by the British Government...

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evidence from the Pitcairn Islands of trade with Mangareva from 1000 CE, and it is likely settlement dates to around 800 CE. The island was once heavily...

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"island". Islands that were uninhabited at contact but which have archaeological evidence of Polynesian settlement include Norfolk Island, Pitcairn, New...

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Clipperton Island

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2022 – via Google Books. The British added the Ellice, Pitcairn and portions of the Phoenix Islands; the Australians consolidated their claims to Papua;...

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Henry Evans Maude

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of the island. During this time, Maude and his wife collected a great number of Polynesian archaeological items found on the Pitcairn Islands, later donated...

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Tofua

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Retrieved 22 January 2022. United States Geological Survey Pitcairn Islands Study Center 300 days of desert island solitude 300 Days alone documentary...

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Oceania

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breeding on Pitcairn include the fairy tern, common noddy, and red-tailed tropicbird. The Pitcairn reed warbler, endemic to Pitcairn Island, was added...

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