Amelia Young

Born on Pitcairn Island in 1853, Rosalind Amelia Young grew up in a community with a remarkable and complicated past. She was a great-granddaughter of John Adams, one of the HMS Bounty mutineers, and from an early age she began gathering stories about the island and its people.

Young worked as a teacher and wrote letters and articles that shared Pitcairn's history with a wider world. In 1894 she published Mutiny of the Bounty and Story of Pitcairn Island (1790–1894), an important account built from island memory and the experiences of several generations.

Because so little was recorded about Pitcairn by its own residents, her work remains especially valuable. She is remembered not only as a historian, but also as a poet whose songs continued to be played on the island long after her death in 1924.