The infamous 1789 mutiny on the HMS Bounty, led by Fletcher Christian against Captain William Bligh, was followed by a desperate search for a hiding place. In 1790, the mutineers, along with several Tahitian men and women they brought with them, found the remote, uncharted Pitcairn Island. The first years were brutal, marked by conflict over land and women, leading to the deaths of nearly every adult man. By 1800, John Adams was the sole surviving mutineer, living with the Tahitian women and the