Lost Paradise: From Mutiny on the Bounty to a Modern-Day Legacy of Sexual Mayhem, the Dark Secrets of Pitcairn Island Revealed
Philadelphia Inquirer (Free subscription) | yesterday
Thomas J. McHugh, who worked for 22 years as chief investment officer for Pitcairn Inc., died Saturday of congestive heart failure at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania.
Sydney Morning Herald (Free subscription) | 11/30/2009
... Court in Glebe has heard that Mr Witton and Mr Golding were about 600 kilometres south of Pitcairn Island, without a long-distance radio, when Mr Witton vanished.At the outset of the inquest, counsel assisting, Geoffrey Denman, suggested the coroner might make a finding of accidental death or deliver an open finding - ruling that there was insufficient evidence to determine how Mr Witton...
Sydney Morning Herald (Free subscription) | 11/30/2009
... on or about January 13, 2007, in a remote part of the Pacific Ocean, about 600km south of Pitcairn Island.Instead of handing down her findings in Glebe Coroners Court, Ms Jerram said she was considering referring the matter to the DPP for consideration of the laying of charges.She said "there could well be" sufficient evidence for a known person to be referred, but added "I am still open-minded".She...
Chicagoan in Montréal (Free subscription) | 11/29/2009
... I wandered aimlessly around Antarctica for a few years after college, but eventually settled on Pitcairn Island after my ship ran aground. I’ve changed my name to Fletcher Christian.” You know, the boring stuff. But in this age of increased connectivity and everyone reconnecting on Facebook, so much of this classic reunion experience is changing. Of course this change depends heavily on...
Fresh Bilge (Free subscription) | 11/27/2009
At an estate sale in England, someone turned up a rare document — a logbook from the ship that found HMS Bounty’s mutineers on Pitcairn Island. It was not particularly informative. It merely confirmed from a new angle what was already known. But it afforded the opportunity to tell the whole strange story of the [...]
Sydney Morning Herald (Free subscription) | 11/30/2009
He was on his yacht, Kaileia, with Simon Charles Golding, now 40, when he disappeared on or about January 13, 2007, in a remote part of the Pacific Ocean, about 600 kilometres south of Pitcairn Island.
The Age (Free subscription) | 11/30/2009
He was on his yacht, Kaileia, with Simon Charles Golding, now 40, when he disappeared on or about January 13, 2007, in a remote part of the Pacific Ocean, about 600km south of Pitcairn Island.
Times Online (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
It was the moment the Royal Navy finally caught up with the mutineers who had taken over HMS Bounty and set its captain William Bligh adrift in an open boat. For 25 years warships had searched the South Pacific to bring the mutineers to justice but found no trace of them. Now, a naval officer’s logbook containing a brief account of the rediscovery of Pitcairn Island, where the mutineers led...
Sydney Morning Herald (Free subscription) | 11/27/2009
... said he awoke to find his shipmate missing in a remote part of the Pacific, about 600km south of Pitcairn Island.Mr Witton's body has never been found.Mr Golding told Glebe Coroner's Court that after finding his companion missing he began a two-day grid search, which he only called off after getting caught in a cyclone.He has said the yacht's high-frequency radio stopped working a week into...
The Age (Free subscription) | 11/27/2009
... said he awoke to find his shipmate missing in a remote part of the Pacific, about 600km south of Pitcairn Island.Mr Witton's body has never been found.Mr Golding told Glebe Coroner's Court that after finding his companion missing he began a two-day grid search, which he only called off after getting caught in a cyclone.He has said the yacht's high-frequency radio stopped working a week into...
Sydney Morning Herald (Free subscription) | 11/26/2009
He was on his yacht, Kaileia, with Simon Charles Golding, now 40, when he disappeared on or about January 13, 2007, in a remote part of the Pacific Ocean, about 600km south of Pitcairn Island.
The Age (Free subscription) | 11/26/2009
He was on his yacht, Kaileia, with Simon Charles Golding, now 40, when he disappeared on or about January 13, 2007, in a remote part of the Pacific Ocean, about 600km south of Pitcairn Island.
Baxojayz - Centricity (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
... behind me. Trivia What was the first island in the Pacific Ocean to become a British colony? Pitcairn, in 1838. Settled in 1790 by mutineers from the HMS Bounty and their Tahitian companions, Pitcairn is now the last remnant of the British Empire in the South Pacific. Today in History William Tell : legendary Swiss archer shot an arrow through an apple on his son's head; his life...
JabzWeb.com (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
The data centers and Google: submit your site in google, yes … but which one? Here is a small example. At today’s date, here is the list of data centers directly attached to the Google empire. If you make an entry in one of these search engines, perhaps your site will be in others! In automatic [...]
ArtCal (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
... Eisenhour has mounted solo exhibitions at Lyndsay McCandless Contemporary Gallery, Jackson, WY; Pitcairn Scott Gallery, Seattle, WA; and Martin Andrews Gallery, Port Townsend, WA. Two person shows include Waterworks Gallery, Friday Harbor, WA; Smith & Vallee Gallery, Edison, WA; Roby King Gallery, Bainbridge Island, WA; and Northwind Arts Center, Port Townsend, WA. Eisenhour has been...
