Descendants of the Bounty mutineers

Descendants of the Bounty mutineers
Descendants of the mutineers John Adams and Matthew Quintal on Norfolk Island, 1862
Total population
~1,000 worldwide[1]
Regions with significant populations
 Pitcairn Islands~45 (2021)[2]
Norfolk Island~450 (2016)[3]
 Australia~250 (2016)[4]
 New Zealand~45 (2018)[5][6]
Languages
Religion
Seventh-day Adventist Church
Related ethnic groups

The descendants of the Bounty mutineers include the modern-day Pitcairn Islanders as well as a little less than half of the population of Norfolk Island. Their common ancestors were the nine surviving mutineers from the mutiny on HMS Bounty which occurred in the south Pacific Ocean in 1789. Their descendants also live in New Zealand, Australia, and the United States.

  1. ^ "Official Pitcairn Immigration and Repopulation Web Site Community". Retrieved 4 November 2022.
  2. ^ "Pitcairn Islands Tourism | Come Explore... The Legendary Pitcairn Islands". Visitpitcairn.pn. Archived from the original on 19 September 2019. Retrieved 3 January 2018.
  3. ^ 2016 Census QuickStats Archived 2 October 2017 at the Wayback Machine – Norfolk Island – Ancestry, top responses
  4. ^ Census and Census Data, Australia - 2016 - Understanding ancestry in the Norfolk Island population
  5. ^ "2018 New Zealand census". 2018. Retrieved 14 August 2020.
  6. ^ Born in Cook Islands