Bounty Bay
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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Makemake, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include HMS Bounty and Pawala Valley Ridge.
HMS Bounty
Disaster remains
HMS Bounty, 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.
Pawala Valley Ridge
Peak
Pawala Valley Ridge, is the highest point of the Pitcairn Islands, a British overseas territory in the southern Pacific Ocean, with an elevation of 347 metres.
Nancy Stone
Islet
Nancy Stone is a rock off the southeast coast of Pitcairn Island in the south Pacific. It is located off the coast between St Paul's Point and Down Rope.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Adamstown.
Adamstown
Hamlet
Photo: Makemake, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Adamstown is the capital and only settlement of the Pitcairn Islands, the only British Overseas Territory that is located in the southern Pacific Ocean.
Bounty Bay
- Type: Bay
- Description: bay in Adamstown, Pitcairn Islands
- Categories: bight and body of water
- Location: Pitcairn Islands, Polynesia, Oceania
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Latitude
-25.06801° or 25° 4′ 5″ southLongitude
-130.09598° or 130° 5′ 46″ westElevation
12 metres (39 feet)Open location code
546FWWJ3+QJOpenStreetMap ID
node 614106183OpenStreetMap feature
natural=bay
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Satellite Map
Discover Bounty Bay from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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 Buffets Reddirt and Big Ridge.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Longboat and Secretary’s Office.
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