Bounty Bay
Bounty Bay is a wide bay on the western coast of Pitcairn Island, within the Pacific Ocean. The island's one village, Adamstown, is on the hillside overlooking the bay.
Bounty Bay is named after HMS Bounty which anchored here after the mutiny which was committed on 28 April 1789. Immortalized in the novel Mutiny on the Bounty, and the numerous subsequent films made of it, this is the most famous, or infamous, mutiny in the history of the Royal Navy. The mutineers sailed the Bounty to Pitcairn Island and destroyed her by fire in Bounty Bay. Current Pitcairn Islanders are largely lineal descendants of the mutineers, and bear their surnames.
Travellers to Pitcairn are usually brought in by longboat into Bounty Bay, as the bay does not provide a deep enough safe anchorage for ocean-going ships.
Outside links
- Location map: 25°4’6"S, 130°5’45"W
- Photos of Pitcairn
- Map of Pitcairn Island