{"id":77075,"date":"2026-04-19T23:00:44","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T14:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/apr\/19\/pitcairn-register-bounty-mutineers-descendants-returns-south-pacific"},"modified":"2026-04-19T23:00:44","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T14:00:44","slug":"its-sacred-to-us-register-of-bounty-mutineers-descendants-returns-to-south-pacific","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=77075","title":{"rendered":"\u2018It\u2019s sacred to us\u2019: register of Bounty mutineer\u2019s descendants returns to South Pacific"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pitcairn Register details lives of \u2018extraordinarily resilient\u2019 Tahitian women enslaved during notorious mutiny<\/p>\n<p>It 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.<\/p>\n<p>Now, the Pitcairn Register \u2013 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 \u2013 is finally returning home to the South Pacific.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/apr\/19\/pitcairn-register-bounty-mutineers-descendants-returns-south-pacific\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pitcairn Register details lives of \u2018extraordinarily resilient\u2019 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 f&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3209,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,43,71,614,89,874,1993,282,52,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-australia-news","category-culture","category-history","category-museums","category-pacific-islands","category-royal-navy","category-south-pacific","category-uk-news","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3209"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=77075"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77075\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77076,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77075\/revisions\/77076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}