Mr. Christian was a seventh-generation, direct descendant of Fletcher Christian, master's mate of the famed ship H.M.S. Bounty of the widely-known "Mutiny on the Bounty" sea story.
Trough his many years radio communication from Pitcairn, Christian had worldwide amateur radio contact with thousands of shortwave radio enthusiasts who were eager to record having had a radio contact with remote Pitcairn Island; as a result, Christian probably held the world record for such contacts, which numbered in the scores if not hundreds of thousands.
Christian was honored by Queen Elizabeth with the Civil Division of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire in 1963 for his service to the Pitcairn people. He was seriously injured several times in his years of crewing island longboats going out through the dangerous surf that often beats against Pitcairn Island to meet calling ships. During several years away from Pitcairn he served as radio officer aboard several ships.
Elected a Councillor several times to Pitcairn's governmental leadership, Christian traveled abroad a number of times, on once as a delegate from the South Pacific to the world conference of the Seventh-day Adventist faith in the United States, and on another occasion to take radio training in Glendale, California, USA and he and his wife, Betty, were speakers at Bounty-Pitcairn Conference 2005, at The Pier, in St. Petersburg, Florida, USA, in June 2005.∼Radio personality. He also know for being a descendant of Bounty Mutineer. He was the great-great-great-grandson of mutiny's leader Fletcher Christian. During his long career as a broadcasting reporter and ham radio operator with the callsign VP6TC, he conversed with amateur radio around the world reaching more than 100,000 people. In 1983, he was named a Member of the British Empire for his services to Pitcairn. Christian died because of complications following stroke.
Trough his many years radio communication from Pitcairn, Christian had worldwide amateur radio contact with thousands of shortwave radio enthusiasts who were eager to record having had a radio contact with remote Pitcairn Island; as a result, Christian probably held the world record for such contacts, which numbered in the scores if not hundreds of thousands.
Christian was honored by Queen Elizabeth with the Civil Division of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire in 1963 for his service to the Pitcairn people. He was seriously injured several times in his years of crewing island longboats going out through the dangerous surf that often beats against Pitcairn Island to meet calling ships. During several years away from Pitcairn he served as radio officer aboard several ships.
Elected a Councillor several times to Pitcairn's governmental leadership, Christian traveled abroad a number of times, on once as a delegate from the South Pacific to the world conference of the Seventh-day Adventist faith in the United States, and on another occasion to take radio training in Glendale, California, USA and he and his wife, Betty, were speakers at Bounty-Pitcairn Conference 2005, at The Pier, in St. Petersburg, Florida, USA, in June 2005.∼Radio personality. He also know for being a descendant of Bounty Mutineer. He was the great-great-great-grandson of mutiny's leader Fletcher Christian. During his long career as a broadcasting reporter and ham radio operator with the callsign VP6TC, he conversed with amateur radio around the world reaching more than 100,000 people. In 1983, he was named a Member of the British Empire for his services to Pitcairn. Christian died because of complications following stroke.
Mr. Christian was a seventh-generation, direct descendant of Fletcher Christian, master's mate of the famed ship H.M.S. Bounty of the widely-known "Mutiny on the Bounty" sea story.
Trough his many years radio communication from Pitcairn, Christian had worldwide amateur radio contact with thousands of shortwave radio enthusiasts who were eager to record having had a radio contact with remote Pitcairn Island; as a result, Christian probably held the world record for such contacts, which numbered in the scores if not hundreds of thousands.
Christian was honored by Queen Elizabeth with the Civil Division of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire in 1963 for his service to the Pitcairn people. He was seriously injured several times in his years of crewing island longboats going out through the dangerous surf that often beats against Pitcairn Island to meet calling ships. During several years away from Pitcairn he served as radio officer aboard several ships.
Elected a Councillor several times to Pitcairn's governmental leadership, Christian traveled abroad a number of times, on once as a delegate from the South Pacific to the world conference of the Seventh-day Adventist faith in the United States, and on another occasion to take radio training in Glendale, California, USA and he and his wife, Betty, were speakers at Bounty-Pitcairn Conference 2005, at The Pier, in St. Petersburg, Florida, USA, in June 2005.∼Radio personality. He also know for being a descendant of Bounty Mutineer. He was the great-great-great-grandson of mutiny's leader Fletcher Christian. During his long career as a broadcasting reporter and ham radio operator with the callsign VP6TC, he conversed with amateur radio around the world reaching more than 100,000 people. In 1983, he was named a Member of the British Empire for his services to Pitcairn. Christian died because of complications following stroke.
Trough his many years radio communication from Pitcairn, Christian had worldwide amateur radio contact with thousands of shortwave radio enthusiasts who were eager to record having had a radio contact with remote Pitcairn Island; as a result, Christian probably held the world record for such contacts, which numbered in the scores if not hundreds of thousands.
Christian was honored by Queen Elizabeth with the Civil Division of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire in 1963 for his service to the Pitcairn people. He was seriously injured several times in his years of crewing island longboats going out through the dangerous surf that often beats against Pitcairn Island to meet calling ships. During several years away from Pitcairn he served as radio officer aboard several ships.
Elected a Councillor several times to Pitcairn's governmental leadership, Christian traveled abroad a number of times, on once as a delegate from the South Pacific to the world conference of the Seventh-day Adventist faith in the United States, and on another occasion to take radio training in Glendale, California, USA and he and his wife, Betty, were speakers at Bounty-Pitcairn Conference 2005, at The Pier, in St. Petersburg, Florida, USA, in June 2005.∼Radio personality. He also know for being a descendant of Bounty Mutineer. He was the great-great-great-grandson of mutiny's leader Fletcher Christian. During his long career as a broadcasting reporter and ham radio operator with the callsign VP6TC, he conversed with amateur radio around the world reaching more than 100,000 people. In 1983, he was named a Member of the British Empire for his services to Pitcairn. Christian died because of complications following stroke.
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He is the son of Fred and Flora Christian.
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