A remote Pacific island whose residents are descendants of the swashbuckling British sailors and Tahitian women immortalised in the "Mutiny on the Bounty" movies is set to lose its right to self-rule.

Pitcairn Island, located between New Zealand and Hawaii, was settled by the British crew of the HMS Bounty after their infamous mutiny in 1789. Today, almost everyone living on the remote island is a ...

The British naval crew’s rebellion is legendary. But here’s what happened afterward—from marooned mutineers to court-martials. On April 28, 1789, the men aboard the H.M.S. Bounty, a British naval ...

MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY—Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall—Little, Brown ($2.50). Iron men and wooden ships—the cat-o’-nine-taiis—South Sea paradise—mutiny— shipwreck—open boats—a trial for piracy, ...

April 28 is the anniversary of the mutiny on The Bounty, possibly the most famous mutiny in history, and probably, when it comes to mutinies, the only one that most of us can name. On that fatal date ...