Ok...Below is an extensive summary of the Mutiny on the Bounty, which is important to my theory. I believe the LOST island may be Oeno, Ducie, or Henderson Island, uninhabited islands near the Island of Pitcairn. The Mutiny on the Bounty is important in explaining Pitcairn Island...one of the most remote inhabited islands in the world. I have also taken liberty to highlight LOST related things in the Mutiny story as well.
The H.M.S. Bounty left England on an exploration expedition to Tahiti on December 23, 1787. The Bounty was captained by William Bligh, who was married to Elizabeth Betham. Elizabeth was the daughter of the wealthy customs collector on the Isle of Man, Richard Betham. Richard Betham was a good friend of philosopher David Hume. After many adventures, and a long stay on the euphorically incapacitating island of Tahiti, the Bounty had finished her mission and was on the way back to England when Fletcher Christian, master's mate, induced a mutiny which forced Captain Bligh and 18 loyal followers into the Bounty's launch, a boat of only 23 feet in length. Christian was 23 at the time the Bounty left England and 25 at the time of the mutiny. Christian retained 4 persons loyal to Bligh on the Bounty because they were valuable to the sailing of the ship. After some failed atempts at settling down, Christian and the Mutineers returned to Tahiti. There, 16 men stayed to settle down, while Christian and the rest kidnapped 18 Tahitian women, one child and 6 men and left in the middle of the night on September 22, 1789. This is the last time H.M.S. Bounty was ever seen. The ship was headed north from Matavai Bay, Tahiti in the South Pacific. Fletcher Christian was rumored to have expressed desire to settle on an uninhabited island.
William Bligh returned to England, after an extraordinary journey, on March 15, 1790, 42 weeks after his initial departure in the Bounty. Exactly 2 months previous, on January 15, 1790, Christian and the Bounty spotted land where no land should be. An unmapped island which they assumed to be Pitcairn. It was uninhabited. Actually there were no known inhabited islands for 800 miles in any direction. Here the Bounty made her resting place. After landing and relieving the ship of all necessities, she was burned to ashes on the beach.
When England learned of the mutiny from Capt. Bligh, they sent their ship, Pandora, to find the Bounty and arrest the mutineers. Upon arrival in Tahiti, several of the mutineers who had chosen not to continue with Christian, swam out to meet the Pandora as she approached. The 16 men who had been left there by Fletcher Christian were taken as prisoners and, on the long voyage back to England, were kept in a tiny cell which they nicknamed Pandora's Box. Of these 16 captured men, 6 would never make it home, 4 would be acquitted, 4 would be hanged, and 2 would be found guilty but pardoned. One of the pardoned mutineers that was captured by Pandora, Peter Heywood, retired in 1816. One of the loyalists, John Hallett, joined the British ship Penelope after the court-martial hearings.
In 1804, William Bligh was offered governorship of New South Wales(Australia). He held this position for 4 years until, in 1808, he was overthrown in a well orchestrated coup.
Also in 1808, the American whaling ship Topaz spotted an island where no island should be. At latitude 25*04' south and longitude 130*06' west was a densely forested island about 2 miles long and 1 mile wide. It was located many hundereds of miles east of Fiji. The captain of the Topaz guessed it was the island of Pitcairn, which must have been incorrectly mapped upon it's discovery. It was an island "destitute of inhabitants" with many caves at the original time of discovery, actually laying more than 800 miles from any know populations. Yet as the Topaz approached, they saw smoke and huts...sure signs of some sort of civilization. On land, they discovered a small colony of 35 inhabitants, the leader was Alexander Smith, former able seaman of the Bounty, and her only living mutineer. The rest had died various deaths over the past 18 years on this island, but not before producing many children with the kidnapped Tahitian women. One of the young men of the island of Pitcairn asked of his father. The young man's name was Thursday October Christian, Fletcher Christian's oldest son.
Six years later,in 1814, 2 British ships would come upon this same island...still uncharted.
Joseph Banks, benefactor of the Bounty's ill-fated journey and long time friend of William Bligh, died in 1820, after having been president of England's Royal Society an unmatched 42 years.
In 1823, Poet Lord Byron published his poem The Island, which praised Bligh for his heroism and shunned the cowardly mutineers.
In 1825, the British ship the Blossom arrived at Pitcairn. She was the 16th ship to visit the island and she stayed for 16 days to interview the aging patriarch, Alexander Smith. Smith's stories of the fate of Fletcher Christian varied wildly from one telling to the next, and although it is believed that Christian probably died on Pitcairn of natural causes, the truth of his fate is still unknown to this day. His alleged death was followed by several reports of ghostly sightings in England for many years.
The decendants of the mutiny on the Bounty live on the Island of Pitcairn to this day, numbering about 50.
I see the connections, Bluegravyboat, but the highlighted numbers tell little, because there are other numbers with no Lost relevance and sometimes (for instance) an eigt is highlighted while it's a part of 1808 or something. But, still, nice research.
”The universe, unfortunately, has a way of course correcting. (…) It's your path to go to the island. You don't do it because you choose to. You do it because you're supposed to.” – Ms Hawking
The numbers and dates and stuff are just a little extra part...my theory is actually about the possibility of OUR island being one of the Pitcairn Islands -Oeno, Henderson, or Dulcie (check out the links)-all uninhabited but occasionally visited by only small groups....I just had to put the Mutiny summary in there to explain Pitcairn...
finding all those names and numbers was just a fun little extra thing for me
”The universe, unfortunately, has a way of course correcting. (…) It's your path to go to the island. You don't do it because you choose to. You do it because you're supposed to.” – Ms Hawking
