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POOR WILL McCOLLOUGH NORFORK ISLAND'S POSTER BOY

When poor Will McCullough was executed along with thirteen others for mutiny in September 1834, he was halfway around the world from his home. He probably didn’t know that he would end up the poster boy for Norfolk Island. Well not him exactly but his headstone. His grave is in the Kingstone cemetery on Kingstone beach. There have been a lot of changes over the last hundred or so years.

Norfolk Island is immersed in history; in the first few sentences of introduction, most of the locals will tell you their surname name with great pride and their links to the original mutineers. If it happens, they are

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