Bounty Bay

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Bounty Bay is an embayment of the Pacific Ocean into Pitcairn Island.

Bounty Bay is named after the HMAV Bounty, a British naval vessel whose 18th century mutiny was immortalized in the novel Mutiny on the Bounty, and the numerous subsequent motion pictures made of it. Current Pitcairn Islanders are largely lineal descendants of the mutineers, as exhibited by some of their surnames. The remains of the vessel, burned by the mutineers, are still visible in the bay.

Travellers to Pitcairn are usually brought in by longboat into Bounty Bay.

[edit] External links

• Photos of Pitcairn - including Bounty Bay
• Map of Pitcairn Island