Indirect references and hidden connections:
- Captain Bligh's bread fruit saplings (which he acquired in Polynesia) made it to St Vincent (in the Caribbean) and is still alive and well in the Botanical Gardens;
- the opening scene to Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of The Black Pearl (2003) was filmed in St Vincent;
- Black pearls were discovered in Tahiti, French Polynesia, (where Danger Island is fictitiously located) by Mikimoto Kokichi;
- the name of the fictitious island, Mitimotu, is only one letter removed from 'Mikimoto', the name of the first luxury cultured pearl company ever started.
- Black pearls were discovered in Tahiti, French Polynesia, (where Danger Island is fictitiously located) by Mikimoto Kokichi;
- the opening scene to Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of The Black Pearl (2003) was filmed in St Vincent;
- It is unknown whether the writers realised this connection, but if they did, hats off.