Charlotte Badger was a former convict who was on board the Venus during a mutiny in Tasmania in 1806.
10 Facts About Charlotte Badger
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Charlotte Badger spent four years of her sentence in prison in England before she was boarded onto a ship.
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Charlotte Badger was described as "a convict, very corpulent, with full face, thick lips, and light hair, has an infant child".
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Charlotte Badger reported that one of the women had died shortly afterwards.
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Captain Bunker offered to take her and her child on board the Elizabeth, but Charlotte Badger declined, and she was taken to Norfolk Island in the Indispensible.
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Charlotte Badger arrived back in Sydney on the Porpoise on 13 July 1807 from Norfolk Island.
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Charlotte Badger was recorded in the February 1811 Muster for New South Wales.
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Charlotte Badger was recorded in subsequent colonial records under her own name or under her married name of Humphries or variants of its spelling.
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The myth of Charlotte Badger has provided the basis for several accounts within popular culture.
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Charlotte Badger was the subject of a 2002 historical fiction novel Charlotte Badger - Buccaneer by author Angela Badger.