William Blight

In 1789, the first European that sighted the Yasawas was the Englishman, Captain William Blight (in Fiji they refer to him as 'Bligh').

The Bounty Trilogy from the 1930s returns telling the tale from the 1788-89 voyage culminating in Christian Fletcher's mutiny against Capt. William Blight to Bligh's remarkable open-ocean voyage of 3600 miles to port and ends with the fate of Christian and the mutineers on a lonely island in the Pacific.
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Will the wedding she's planning before even meeting the groom come off, or is he wilier than she?

Breadfruit came from India, it is said by William Blight, captain of the Bounty.Cassava, maize and tobacco were brought by the Awaraks.

A special place is reserved for the Ortanique, a cross-fertilization of the orange and the tangerine.

After the famous mutiny on the Bounty in 1789, Captain William Blight and 18 others drifted in Fijian waters on a small boat.

First settled by the Polynesians and later colonised by the British, the Fiji Islands were put on the map by Captain William Blight, of "Mutiny on the Bounty" fame.

BLIGH, CAPTAIN WILLIAM: (September 9, 1754 , December 7, 1817) A British Naval officer with a distinguished career, Bligh is best known for being the captain of the ill-fated HMS Bounty.
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Samuel's other brother, William, would use George's eyewitness accounts as the basis of his book THE LIFE OF SAMUEL COMSTOCK, THE TERRIBLE WHALEMAN. [See Enewsletter article: "The Bloody King of Mili Atoll."]

Stamfordham's captain Billy Blight successfully talked up the rain jinx that plagues Humshaugh and Stamfordham encounters.

On a lovely May afternoon with all the players squinting in the bright light and enjoying a little warmth for a change, Billy insisted that there would be rain.

A few yars later, in 1789, Christian Fletcher and the other mutinies on Bounty left Captain William Blight and 18 loyal crewmembers in a small dinghy here.
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Blight then driftet from Tonga to Timor - 6500 kilometer and the longest ever trip in an open boat.We are only going 400 nautical miles from Tonga to Fiji, and after 9 days of rain we are eager to get on our way.Good for us that we don´t know what is waiting for us in Fiji....

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The Bounty Islands, which were discovered by the famous Captain William Blight (best remembered for the mutiny on his ship, the Bounty), are believed to have been discovered around 1788, while Campbell was discovered in 1810.

Molen and his colleagues -- including co-producer John Garbett and director Steven Ramirez -- spent five weeks filming "Johnny Lingo," three in New Zealand and two on Aitutaki, in the Cook Islands. (H.M.S. Bounty, commanded by Capt. William Blight, visited Aitutaki in 1789.)