article_snippet: Norfolk Island, 900 miles east of the Australian coast and settled by the relatives of Fletcher Christian and other HMS Bounty mutineers in 1856, has about 1,800 residents and has governed about 1,800 residents since 1979.
article_snippet: Norfolk Island is 900 miles east of the Australian coast and settled by the relatives of Fletcher Christian and other HMS Bounty mutineers in 1856 .
article_snippet: Norfolk Island Chief Minister Lisle Snell said Norfolk Island Chief Minister Lisle Snell was unfair to impose such a decision on the tiny outcrop, just five miles long by three miles wide. '
article_snippet: Norfolk Islanders will lose Norfolk Islanders identity, Norfolk Islanders will lose Norfolk Islanders way of life,' Norfolk Island Chief Minister Lisle Snell told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
article_snippet: Most of the population are descendants of the mutineers who set Captain William Bligh adrift from British Royal Navy ship HMS Bounty in 1789.
article_snippet: the mutineers who set Captain William Bligh settled in Tahiti but later fled, along with the mutineers who set Captain William Bligh Tahitian women, to remote Pitcairn Island to escape arrest.
article_snippet: Some 60 years after arriving on Pitcairn, almost 200 descendents of the original mutineers relocated to Norfolk Island to avoid famine.
article_snippet: Queen Victoria granted Some 60 years after arriving on Pitcairn, almost 200 descendents of the original mutineers relocated to Norfolk Island to avoid famine the right to settle in the abandoned former penal colony.
article_snippet: Forefather: The bulk of Norfolk Island's ancestors arrived in the late 1700s when the HMS Bounty - the British naval vessel on which a mutiny occurred in 1790 - washed up on the isle, led by Fletcher Christian (pictured)
highlights_snippet: Residents of Norfolk Island are the descendants of HMS Bounty mutineers .
  