What and where is Pitcairn Island?
The Mutineers turning Lt Bligh and part of the Officers and Crew adrift from His Majesty’s Ship the Bounty, 29th April 1789 by Robert Dodd [artist & engraver]; B. B. Evans [publisher], 2 October 1790. Repro ID: B1337 ©National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, LondonPitcairn Island is situated in the South Pacific Ocean at 25° 4′ south and 130° 6′ west. It was the island to which the mutineers of the Bounty fled in 1789, led by Fletcher Christian. It is less than a mile across and has one landing point, Bounty Bay, where the shp was run aground and sunk after the mutiny. It is still inhabited today, with most of the population living in Adamstown, named after John Adams, the last survivor of the mutineers.
