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[Specially written for "The Press” KENNETH ANTHONY] THIS new stamp issued by the Pacific island of Pitcairn in August shows a longboat in Bounty Bayscene of the burning of the Bounty after the mutiny of 1790. It was on Pitcairn that some of the mutineers made their home, and where some of their direct descendants live to this day. Boats of the type illustrated on the stamp are used mainly for transferring visitors between their ships and the island. These craft are more than 30 feet long, and some are nine feet wide. They are built after the
pattern of a boat Queen Victoria once sent to the island. A similar boat under sail is seen on the Jd stamp of the series.
But where does the name of Pitcairn come from? It goes back to the day in 1767 when Captain Philip Cartaret, the British navigator, discovered the island. But the first man actually to sight land was young Lieutenant Pitcairn, and after him the island was named. In the same year Cartaret rediscovered after 200 years the Santa Cruz group, now part of the British Solomon Islands; and the chart of this remarkable voyage is shown
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Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30562, 3 October 1964, Page 5
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