Pandanus Utilis...ANSWERED

..., I believe. Certainly not Artocarpus altilis!

SV, please.

I already walked (don't remember for which challenge) in that area and recognized the tree

Go, Walter!

Feb 12, 2021 11:36:36 GMT Walter_V_R said:

Feb 12, 2021 11:17:54 GMT krenek said:

walter and i (and other players in a few minutes/hours) know all palm trees around the world, don't we?

Indeed, I like maintaining large data bases

Apr 13, 2021 9:22:49 GMT Walter_V_R said:

... and recognized the tree

remember, walter maintains a very large database of all trees in the world!

So far only Walter has attempted this challenge - are the F & G'rs staging a mutiny? 

thanks for the comments and clues

Back to the Future and Napoleon, John Lennon and a cannon in a castle, trees and... this. I must add a type of clue to my list: the Surreal Frank McVey Clue.

Btw I remember a puzzle a long time ago near this place too. 

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This one was easier than it looked, although there wasn't much uptake until I'd given a pretty pointed hint!  The tree in the background, P. Utilis, is the screwpine - its fruits are edible when cooked, although not particularly tasty to humans; the leaves are used for basket making.  The real clue, though was Artocarpus altilis, or breadfruit, and even if you didn't immediately make the connection between a ship and breadfruit, the Wiki entry goes on to describe how Sir Joseph Banks sought to export the breadfruit plant from Tahiti to the Caribbean to provide cheap food for slaves, bringing us to the story of the Mutiny on the Bounty and Pitcairn Island.  The "Bounty anchor's" location is clearly marked on Google Maps.

And that would be that, except for Walter, fount of all knowledge, pointing out to me that this isn't really the Bounty anchor, despite what GM says; it's the anchor from a ship called the Acadia, wrecked on Ducie Island, an uninhabited atoll some 300 miles east of Pitcairn Island - story here.

Interesting place, Ducie - it also connects to the story of the Nantucket whaling ship Essex which was attacked by a whale and sunk; the crew escaped on three whaleboats - they became separated and the remains of a whaleboat with three skeletons was found on Ducie.  Those on the other boats survived and were rescued - well, mostly, since they had had to resort to cannabalism to survive.  Story here.   The story of the Essex was, of course, the inspiration for Herman Melville's novel Moby Dick.


The real Bounty anchor was discovered in 1957 and is displayed in Adamstown:

The spare anchor from Bounty was lost when the mutineers grounded the ship on a reef near Tahiti and used it to kedge the ship off the reef;  it was too tightly embedded in the coral to recover it, so they cut the cable and left it.  It was recovered in 1935 and is now on display in a museum in Auckland, NZ.

Well done, all who made it!