Bounty Bay

25°4′6″S 130°5′45″W / 25.06833°S 130.09583°W / -25.06833; -130.09583

Bounty Bay is an embayment of the Pacific Ocean into Pitcairn Island. It is named after the Bounty, a British naval vessel whose eighteenth-century mutiny was immortalized in the novel Mutiny on the Bounty, and the numerous subsequent motion pictures made of it. The mutineers sailed the Bounty to Pitcairn Island and destroyed it by fire in the bay.[1] Current Pitcairn Islanders are largely patrilineal descendants of the mutineers and their Tahitian wives, as exhibited by some of their surnames.[2]

Travellers to Pitcairn are usually brought by longboat into Bounty Bay.[3]

References

  1. ^ Young, Rosalind Amelia (1924). Mutiny of the Bounty and story of Pitcairn Island, 1790-1894. Mountain View, Calif.; Pacific Press Publishing Assoc. p. 22. ISBN 978-1-4102-0846-0. Retrieved 18 March 2026. {{cite book}}: ISBN / Date incompatibility (help)
  2. ^ Stanley, David (2004). South Pacific Handbook. Moon South Pacific. Moon Publications. p. 291. ISBN 978-1566914116. Retrieved 18 March 2026. Most of the fewer than 50 permanent inhabitants of Pitcairn are direct descendants of the mutineers and their Tahitian wives... The present population is descended from those six families.
  3. ^ Ford, H. (2014). Pitcairn Island as a Port of Call: A Record, 1790-2010, 2d ed. McFarland, Incorporated, Publishers. p. 314. ISBN 978-0-7864-8822-3. Retrieved 1 June 2023.


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