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William Bligh
William Bligh was a Royal Navy officer remembered for the mutiny on HMS Bounty in 1789, after which he sailed some 6,700 kilometres to Timor in an open boat. On a second voyage he brought breadfruit from Tahiti to the West Indies in 1793. As governor of New South Wales from 1806 he was deposed by officers of the New South Wales Corps in the Rum Rebellion of 1808.
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