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    Pitcairn was a schooner built in 1890 for the Seventh-day Adventist Church for use in missionary work in the South Pacific. After six missionary voyages...
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    The Pitcairn Islands (/ˈpɪtkɛərn/ PIT-kairn; Pitkern: Pitkern Ailen), officially Pitcairn, Henderson, Ducie and Oeno Islands, are a group of four volcanic...
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  • Frank Pitcairn, penname of British journalist Claud Cockburn (1904–1981) HMS Pitcairn (K589), a British frigate Pitcairn (schooner), a schooner launched...
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    John Tay (category Seventh-day Adventist missionaries in the Pitcairn Islands)
    inhabitants of Pitcairn Island were converted to Adventism, and that the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists purchased the Pitcairn schooner for missionary...
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    The history of the Pitcairn Islands begins with the colonization of the islands by Polynesians in the 11th century. Polynesian people established a culture...
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    Mutiny on the Bounty (category 1789 in the Pitcairn Islands)
    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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    HMS Bounty (category History of the Pitcairn Islands)
    the Bounty. The mutineers later burned Bounty while she was moored at Pitcairn Island in the Southern Pacific Ocean in 1790. An American adventurer helped...
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    John Adams (mutineer) (category English emigrants to the Pitcairn Islands)
    March 1829), was the last survivor of the Bounty mutineers who settled on Pitcairn Island in January 1790, the year after the mutiny. His real name was John...
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  • 20c depicting the Seventh-day Adventist owned mission schooner the Pitcairn. In 1856 Pitcairn Island was completely evacuated to than deserted Norfolk...
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    Fletcher Christian (category Pitcairn Islands people of Manx descent)
    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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    Effie M. Morrissey (now Ernestina-Morrissey) is a schooner skippered by Robert Bartlett that made many scientific expeditions to the Arctic, sponsored...
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    to San Francisco of 20 days Papeete, schooner with a 17 day passage from San Francisco to Tahiti Pitcairn, schooner built by Turner for the Seventh-day...
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    ISBN 978-1-59048-250-6. [1] Descendants of the Bounty's Crew Pitcairn's History. pitcairn.pn "Pitcairn descendants of the Bounty Mutineers". Janesoceania.com...
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    Pacific Swift (ship) (category Schooners)
    The Pacific Swift is a square topsail schooner, built by S.A.L.T.S. as a working exhibit at Expo '86 in Vancouver, British Columbia. She provides 5- to...
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    descendants of Tahitians and the HMS Bounty mutineers, resettled from the Pitcairn Islands, which had become too small for their growing population. The British...
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    face of unrest among the people of Chile. He also took an interest in Pitcairn Islands at this time and planned the emigration of the islanders to Norfolk...
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  • Tubuai, while Fletcher Christian and 8 others sailed the Bounty on to Pitcairn Island. Along with the others who then lived as 'beachcombers' in Tahiti...
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    Edwin Butz (category Seventh-day Adventist missionaries in the Pitcairn Islands)
    Florence and daughter Alma on the third voyage of the SDA schooner Pitcairn. They served first on Pitcairn Island, then in the early days of the Adventist mission...
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    allowed to resume his naval career at sea. Meanwhile, Christian has found Pitcairn, an uninhabited yet sustainable island that he believes will provide adequate...
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    1816. p. 432. Marshall (1832), Vol. 3, Part 2, pp1-13. Pitcairn Jones (1934), pp. 50–2. Pitcairn Jones (1934), pp. 52–7. "Ship News". The Times. No. 18821...
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    off and eventually established their settlement on the then uncharted Pitcairn Island. By the time of Pandora's arrival, fourteen of the former Bounty...
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  • Christian sailed the Bounty to Tahiti for the final time before heading to Pitcairn, Churchill along with 15 other crew members, voted to stay. He had an ally...
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    Easter Island/Rapa Nui. They had a state-of-the-art 90-foot (27 m) long Schooner built and named it Mana. They affiliated with the British Association for...
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    of the American clipper ship Wild Wave, wrecked off Oeno Island in the Pitcairn Islands, and conducted an expedition against natives at Waya Island, Fiji...
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  • Double Headed Shot Cays Elbow Cays Factory Cays Inagua Islands Plana Cays Schooner Cays Water Cays Victory Cays Turks and Caicos Six Hill Cays Windward Islands...
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  • to the West Indies and to the remote communities of Easter Island and Pitcairn Island. Pacific Swift has a total sail area of 510 sq m and weighs 71.45...
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    Antarctic expeditions of Admiral Byrd. Another example is the voyage of the schooner Kaimiloa, which traveled the South Pacific in 1924. While the ship's wealthy...
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    those islands from the reach of the British regulars. The British armed schooner Diana was also destroyed and its weaponry was appropriated by the Colonial...
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    on Oeno Island. Cornwallis 23 January 1875 A ship that was wrecked on Pitcairn Island. Khandeish 25 September 1875 A ship that was wrecked on Oeno Island...
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    to settle in Tahiti, after which the Bounty, under Christian, sailed to Pitcairn Island. Although various explorers had refused to get involved in tribal...
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