Person
Teraura.
Polynesian woman who travelled with HMS Bounty and settled Pitcairn Island
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About Teraura
Teraura, also Susan or Susannah Young, was a Tahitian woman who settled on Pitcairn Island with the Bounty Mutineers. She took part in Ned Young's plot to murder male Polynesians who had travelled on HMS Bounty and killed Tetahiti. A tapa maker, examples of her craft are found in the British Museum and at Kew Gardens.
Everything about Teraura →- Citizenship
- Pitcairn Islands
- Died
- July 15, 1850