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Tetiaroa, one of the Society Islands, is an atoll located 42 km north of Tahiti.
In 1789, William Bligh and some of his crew became the first Europeans to visit the island, doing so after the mutiny on the Bounty.
In 1904, the royal Pomare family of Tahiti gave the island to dentist Johnston Walter Williams. As a private island it passed through the hands of other owners until 1965, when Marlon Brando, after filming Mutiny on the Bounty, leased it from its current owner for 99 years.
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