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From the other end of the spectrum, a famous case of (adults) getting shipwrecked and going batshit insane: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batavia_(1628_ship)

The Bounty mutineers' settlement on an uninhabited island also comes to mind https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutiny_on_the_Bounty#Pitcairn

Imagine having that as your family history. There are still 50 or so descendants still living on Pitcairn today.

For a discomforting high number of those, their ancestry is probably the least of their worries:

And several hundred descendants living elsewhere (Norfolk Island, Australia, New Zealand).

To be fair, it didn’t help that they left a psychopath in charge.