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Extremities

Pitcairn's Beginning, Boat, and Bureaucracy

Extremities

Wendover Productions

Society & Culture, Places & Travel

4.91.8K Ratings

🗓️ 19 June 2019

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

The HMS Bounty arrives and creates a new society. We explain Pitcairn's supply ship, its connection to New Zealand, its political status, the outsiders on Pitcairn, and much more.


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0:00.0

Last episode, we introduced you to Pitcairn, the tiny British island in the South Pacific.

0:05.7

We covered this six-day $4,89 journey one takes to get from London to Pitcairn.

0:11.2

We introduced you to its 75 buildings and 50 residents. We covered the school and the

0:15.8

pizza place and the generators and the pub and we told you about the HMS bounty.

0:20.0

The ship whose remains lay feet below the waters just off the coast of Pitcairn.

0:24.0

The ship that journeyed all the way from London to the South Pacific, destined for the West Indies with a delivery of breadfruit from Tahiti.

0:31.0

The ship upon which Captain William Bly berated and demeaned Fletcher Christian

0:35.2

and the rest of the crew mile upon mile day after day.

0:39.2

The ship upon which Fletcher Christian made a decision that he would go on to say was his own personal hell.

0:44.8

The ship upon which Christian and his gang gathered the guns, crept upstairs, grabbed Captain Bly,

0:51.1

dragged him on deck, and gave the entire crew a choice.

0:55.1

Leave on the tender with Captain William Bly, or stay on the HMS bounty with Fletcher

1:00.2

Christian.

1:02.2

In answering the choice given to them by the mutineers, about half of the bounty's crew left with the

1:06.6

captain as the tender drifted away from the bounty no more than five hours after he had been

1:11.2

dragged out on deck by Christian and his crew.

1:14.0

Captain Bly and his loyalists made it to the nearby island of Tungatapu,

1:18.0

but eventually island hopped all the way to what is now Jakarta, Indonesia,

1:22.0

5,000 miles or 8,000 kilometers away over the course of 4 months,

1:26.2

an impressive feet in the 23-foot 7-meter open top tender.

1:31.4

From there, many of the group eventually caught boats back to Europe, but Captain Bly's breakaway crew is not the one we need to follow.

1:38.0

It's Fletcher Christian's crew now with the entirety of the HMS bounty to themselves. Now mutiny on a Royal Navy

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