Bounty Bay

Bounty Bay is an embayment of the Pacific Ocean into . It is named after the , a naval vessel whose eighteenth-century mutiny was immortalized in the novel Mutiny on the Bounty, and the numerous subsequent motion pictures made of it.
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Photo: Makemake, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Places of Interest

Highlights include HMS Bounty and Pawala Valley Ridge.

Disaster remains
Photo: JoJan, CC BY 3.0.
, also known as HMAV Bounty, was a British merchant ship that the Royal Navy purchased in 1787 for a botanical mission. The ship was sent to the South Pacific Ocean under the command of William Bligh to acquire breadfruit plants and transport them to the British West Indies.

Peak
, is the highest point of the , a British overseas territory in the southern Pacific Ocean, with an elevation of 347 metres.

Islet
is a rock off the southeast coast of in the south Pacific. It is located off the coast between St Paul's Point and .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Adamstown.

Hamlet
Photo: Makemake, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is the capital and only settlement of the , the only British Overseas Territory that is located in the southern Pacific Ocean.

Bounty Bay

Latitude
-25.06801° or 25° 4′ 5″ south
Longitude
-130.09598° or 130° 5′ 46″ west
Elevation
12 metres (39 feet)
Open location code
546FWWJ3+QJ
Open­Street­Map ID
node 614106183
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­bay
Geo­Names ID
4030721
Wiki­data ID
Q1655368
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Satellite Map

Discover Bounty Bay from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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In Other Languages

From Cebuano to Yue Chinese—“Bounty Bay” goes by many names.
  • Cebuano: “Bounty Bay”
  • Chinese: “邦迪灣”
  • Czech: “Bounty Bay”
  • Czech: “Bounty”
  • Danish: “Bounty Bay”
  • Dutch: “Bounty Bay”
  • Esperanto: “Bounty Bay”
  • German: “Bounty Bay”
  • Hausa: “Bounty Bay”
  • Hebrew: “מפרץ באונטי”
  • Indonesian: “Teluk Bounty”
  • Japanese: “バウンティ湾”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Bounty Bay”
  • Norwegian: “Bounty Bay”
  • Polish: “Bounty Bay”
  • Portuguese: “Baía de Bounty”
  • Russian: “Баунти”
  • Russian: “Залив Баунти”
  • Slovak: “Bounty Bay”
  • Tajik: “Баунтӣ (халиҷ)”
  • Tajik: “Баунтӣ”
  • Turkish: “Bounty Körfezi”
  • Uzbek: “Bounty koʻrfazi”
  • Yue Chinese: “邦迪灣”

Localities in the Area

Explore places such as The Landing and Buffets Reddirt.

Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Longboat and Police Station.

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