The ship called on Pitcairn Island which is 1200 km west of Easter Island and 1,300 km to Tahiti. A small island , but it is very famous. At present it belongs to UK and has population 50 only. Most of them are white people - the only one in Pacific (Mostly Polynesian)..
I think many of you watched " Mutiny of the bounty" (there are 5 films). An English ship called "The Bounty" left England in late 1787 and took 10 months to arrive in Tahiti. The ship was supposed to bring breadfruit-tree to the Carribbean. On 28th April 1789 when the ship left Tahiti and passing by Tonga,the 2nd man Fletcher Christian in the ship mutinied with crew and sent the captain Bligh with 18 faithful crew into ship's launch (a small open boat). These 19 people took 41 days 5,823 km to reached Timor which was in the record book.
Christian sailed "the Bounty" back to Tahiti. Later they split into 2 groups, 16 crew stayed in Tahiti. Christian sailed the Bounty with 8 British crew, 12 female and 6 male Tahitian to Pitcairn Island where no people lived. They settled down there and burned the Bounty which sunk nearby. They were found out many year later when many people with surname Christian. Now a day most of resident in Pitcairn are mutineers' descendents. Because of this mutiny, the island belongs to British.
For the group of 16 crew who stayed in Tahiti, 2 died and 14 were caught by British Navy and sent back to England where 2 were hanged.
Captain Bligh later went back to Tahiti and many year later became governor of New South Wales, Australia and has his statue in Circular Quay, Sydney.
There is only one place on this island where you can land with a small boat as the waves are big. On our call day, 30 persons came to our ship to sell their handicraft, postcards & stamps, T-shirts (made in China) for 2 hours. We estimated they took USD 40,000 back.
How they spend their time?? If they want to go out, they need to take boat to Tahiti.
This is different world.
