Fletcher Christian
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Fletcher Christian was an English 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.
Fletcher Christian's house
Postage stamp, UK issue for Pitcairn Islands (1940) showing King George VI and an artist's interpretation of Fletcher Christian
A view of Pitcairn's Island, South Seas, 1814, by J. Shillibeer
Fletcher Christian's son Thursday October Christian in 1814 at the age of 24, by J. Shillibeer
Mauatua
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Mauatua, also Maimiti or Isabella Christian, also known as Mainmast, was a Tahitian tapa maker, who settled on Pitcairn Island with the Bounty mutineers. She married both Fletcher Christian and Ned Yo
Fletcher Christian
…slept through the mutiny although he did join the mutineers ex post facto. Following the mutiny, Christian first travelled to Tahiti, where he married Maimiti, the daughter of one of the local chiefs. He then attempted to build a colony on Tubuai, but there the mutineers came into conflict with natives…
Tapa cloth made by Mauatua