1. Captain Bligh, sir! Are the ice cream cones ready?

2. Captain Bligh: Now don't mistake me.

3. Captain Bligh: Why shouldn't we succeed? Admiral Anderson did.

4. Captain Bligh: It is a matter of supernatural indifference to me whether you contaminate the natives or the natives contaminate you.

4. Wish you will love and make progress everyday!

5. In appointing Captain Bligh to rule the colony, the English Government spoiled an excellent seaman to make a very inefficient Governor.

6. and in 1808, when Bligh visited it after his expulsion from Sydney, he found the little township with quite a settled and comfortable appearance.

7. Capt. Bligh finally delivered breadfruit trees to the Caribbean, but it took almost five decades for locals to develop a taste for it, according to some accounts of his mission.

8. I am proud to have sailed with Captain Bligh on his journey of over 40 days through about 4,000miles in an open boat across the Pacific Ocean in 1789.

9. The Bligh Reef's remote location (accessible only by boat or helicopter), a lack of oil skimming equipment and ineffective chemical dispersants made a speedy response difficult.

10. Queensland Premier Anna Bligh says that man-made threats present serious challenges to the reef, which is a world heritage site.

11. The Exxon Valdez had run aground on the Bligh Reef, and was leaking oil.

12. Ms Bligh said it was a "highly volatile situation" so plans would continue to be revised as the forecasting models were updated with more precision.

13. Captain Bligh: If that's an attempt to earn clemency, I spit on it.

14. Speaking to reporters, Queensland premier Anna Bligh called it "a disaster on an unprecedented scale, " which seemed to be a pretty good epithet for the year as a whole - whatever its cause.

15. Still, the State Premier Anna Bligh said she'd feared much wider devastation, given the scale of the storm, its once- in-a-century power, and the fact that it hits such a densely populated area.

16. Queensland Premier Anna Bligh 11, said the flood ravaged southeast Queensland in the last 24 hours, at least 10 people were killed and 78 were missing.

17. Britain's Royal Society dispatched Capt. William Bligh to Tahiti in 1787 to collect breadfruit specimens to help feed colonies in the West Indies.

18. He attempted to envisage and explain the incredible feat of navigation undertaken by Captain Bligh after the Mutiny.

19. The method came to prominence through the activities of Frederick Bligh Bond, a highly respected authority on medieval church architecture.

20. The most common explanation for the Bounty mutiny pits a humane Fletcher Christian against an oppressive William Bligh.

21. This is a very serious situation, Queensland Premier Anna Bligh said, according to a news release on Friday.

22. On the night of March 24, 1989, the Exxon Valdez oil tanker ran aground on Bligh Reef in the pristine waters of Alaska's Prince William Sound.

23. Earlier this week, Ambassador Chen sent a letter of sympathies to the Premier of Queensland Anna Bligh.

24. The drawback of staying on the ship seemed to grow as I thought about how wrong it was to treat Captain Bligh in this way.

25. On Monday, a salvage team on board was assessing how best to salvage the ship in what will likely be a difficult operation, the state's leader, Anna Bligh, told Australian Broadcasting Corp. radio.