The mutineer leader, Fletcher Christian, knew that settling on Tahiti was sure to mean the mutineer's eventual discovery and arrest, so despite being viewed as intruders, Christian was reluctant to view permanent settlement on Tubuai as unfeasible.

Tubuai was annexed by France in 1881.

After only two months since their first arrival on Tubuai the mutineers left for good.

One Protestant minister when visiting a congregation on Tubuai on January 3, 1824 wrote that several Islanders were still suffering from a devastating illness.

The islanders of Tubuai did not want to allow their women to stay at the mutineer camp, nor to allow them to become wives.

The expedition left Tahiti in early October, swinging to the west and south of the Tubuai Islands and then heading to the south-east before turning east towards the South American coast.

Tubuai ( Polynesian: Tupua ' i ) is the name of a group of islands and also the name of its main island, being part of the Austral Islands, French Polynesia, in the Pacific Ocean.

Tubuai, the main island of the Tubuai Island group, is located at.

Due to its southerly position, Tubuai has notably cooler weather than Tahiti.

Mutineer Fletcher Christian in looking for an island on which to permanently hide had " scoured " Bligh's maps and nautical charts and decided on Tubuai.

Upon arrival at Tubuai, a conflict arose while the mutineers were still on their ship and several islanders were killed in their canoes.

When they returned to Tubuai they built a fort on the Northeast part of the island at Ta ' ahueia, manned with cannon and swivel gun which they named Fort George.

This proved particularly devastating to the population of Tubuai.

Tubuai is the administrative capital of the Austral Islands, and the commune consists solely of the one island.

Geographically, they consist of two separate archipelagos, namely in the northwest the Tubuai Islands () consisting of the Îles Maria, Rimatara, Rurutu, Tubuai Island proper and Raivavae or Raevavae, and in the southeast the Bass Islands () composed of the main island of Rapa Iti and the small Marotiri.

The capital of the Austral Islands administrative subdivision is Tubuai.

* The Tubuai Islands (), named for one of the main islands.

The capital of the Austral Islands administrative subdivision is Tubuai.

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