‘It’s sacred to us’: register of Bounty mutineer’s descendants returns to South Pacific (opens in new tab)

Pitcairn Register details lives of ‘extraordinarily resilient’ Tahitian women enslaved during notorious mutinyIt is a book that records the 19th-century descendants of some of the most notorious troublemakers in naval history: the sailors responsible for the mutiny on the Bounty.Now, the Pitcairn Register – a handwritten volume that registered the births, marriages and deaths of the children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren of the mutineers and the Tahitian women they enslaved – is fina...