Christian divides the personal effects of the…
April 1789 CE
He recognizes that Bligh could conceivably survive to report the mutiny, and that in any case the non-return of Bounty would occasion a search mission, with Tahiti as its first port of call.
Christian therefore heads Bounty towards the small island of Tubuai, some four hundred and fifty nautical miles (eight hundred and thirty kilometers; five hundred and twenty miles) south of Tahiti.
Tubuai had been discovered and roughly charted by Cook; except for a single small channel, it is entirely surrounded by a coral reef and can, Christian surmises, be easily defended against any attack from the sea.
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