#captain bligh

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N. C. Wyeth - illustrations for The Bounty

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Yosemite Sam in pirate mode, faces off against Bugs Bunny, using two of my drawings from the “Looney Tunes Spotlight Collection Vol. 5,” painted up and placed over a background from “Buccaneer Bunny,” 1948.

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Movie poster art for "The Bounty" starring Mel Gibson and Anthony Hopkins, 1982 by artist Brian Bysouth

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Katnip the Actor (1950s)

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[pixoplanet]

It's January 23rd, Bounty Day on 👑 Pitcairn Island. On this day in 1790, Fletcher Christian and his merry band of mutineers 🔥 burned Her Majesty's Ship (HMS) Bounty to prevent the possibility of anybody escaping the island and reporting their location.

The ship had been on a supply mission in the South Pacific since December 1787 to acquire and deliver a shipload of 🍈 breadfruit to the West Indies. However, on April 28th, 1789, the crew ⚔️ mutinied against their Captain, William Bligh. They set him and 18 of his loyalists adrift in a small open 🚣‍♂️ boat about 2,000 kilometers west of Tahiti. Bligh miraculously managed to pilot the boat and his men 6,500 km to the west to the island of Timor on June 14th, 1789. Meanwhile, the mutineers played cat and mouse with the Royal Navy until they landed on Pitcairn Island on January 15th, 1970. They felt safe there because the island was shown in the wrong place on Royal Navy maps – 350 km from its actual location. They were even safer than they imagined. The next ship to visit the island didn't come until 1808 – the Topaz, an American whaler.

The mutineers were undoubtedly the first Europeans to settle on Pitcairn Island, but they definitely weren't the first human beings. Polynesians settled "Hitiaurevareva," the Island far Away, at least as far back as the 11th century. Scarce resources eventually forced them to abandon the island, possibly as late as the 15th century. The island was uninhabited when the mutineers "discovered" it.

Today's Bounty Day festivities will start off with a re-enactment of the mutineers' landing at Kingston Pier. The Island Administrator will greet them, and march with them and the rest of the celebrants to the Mutineers' Memorial and cemetery, where everybody will lay commemorative wreaths and sing solemn hymns. Next stop is the Government House, where a family descended from the original mutineers (that means with a surname of Adams, Buffet, Christian, Evans, McCoy, Nobbs, Quintal, or Young) will be 🎖️ awarded the title of "Pitcairn Family of the Year." The procession will then march back to the pier for a 🍽️ celebratory feast. The night will conclude with 🔥 burnings of model replicas of the Bounty and a big 🎆 fireworks display. Bounty Day sounds like a great bucket-list item, don't you think? ☮️ Peace… Jamiese of Pixoplanet

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Mutiny on the Bounty(1962)

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