News about William Bligh

Fishing, accommodating occasional cruise passengers, waiting for supplies to arrive, and admiring nature. This is what life is like on one of the world's most isolated islands. Torika Christian, 21, has been posting snipsnips of her life on Pitcairn and is reportedly the world's smallest community, with everyone inside and out.' There is no working harbor or airstrip on the outcrop, so access to the outside world is largely dependent on two sturdy steel vessels that are used to ferry people and cargo to and from ships sailing offshore.

Janelle Patton, 29, was discovered wrapped in a black plastic sheet at Norfolk Island's Cockpit Waterfall Reserve on Easter Sunday, 2002. Ms Patton (right) had 64 injuries, including stab wounds, a fractured skull, and broken pelvis, as a result of a police probe that made international news. Ms Patton's murder is still a point of contention in true-crime podcasts and among amateur sleuths, more than two decades later. After 18 years in jail, McNeill (left) is expected to be released.

John Macarthur (main) was the richest man in colonial NSW, but five generations later, his descendants are wrangling over what to do with their inherited wealth. Lady Katrina Hobhouse (top right) and Lee Macarthur-Onslow (inset) were caught in a bitter dispute over property ownership, including a block of fertile farm land in Sydney's south west known as Mount Gilead (bottom right). The siblings' litigation exposed slews of the dynasty's internals, but it didn't end until Mr Macarthur-Onslow's death last year. Lady Macarthur-Onslow's case is the first in a court action to find that the family matriarch struck her daughter over the head with a broom stick and a roll-up newspaper at the time of the controversy.