Bounty Bay is an

embayment A bay is a recessed, coastal body of water that directly connects to a larger main body of water, such as an ocean, a lake, or another bay. A large bay is usually called a gulf, sea, sound, or bight. A cove is a small, circular bay with a na ...

of the

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into Pitcairn Island. It is named after the ''Bounty'', a

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naval vessel whose eighteenth-century mutiny was immortalized in the novel ''

Mutiny on the Bounty The mutiny on the Royal Navy vessel occurred in the South Pacific Ocean on 28 April 1789. Disaffected crewmen, led by acting-Lieutenant Fletcher Christian, seized control of the ship from their captain, Lieutenant William Bligh, and set h ...

'', 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. Current

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are largely lineal descendants of the mutineers, as exhibited by some of their surnames. Travellers to Pitcairn are usually brought in by

longboat A longboat is a type of ship's boat that was in use from ''circa'' 1500 or before. Though the Royal Navy replaced longboats with launches from 1780, examples can be found in merchant ships after that date. The longboat was usually the largest boa ...

into Bounty Bay.

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Bays of the Pacific Ocean Landforms of the Pitcairn Islands Bays of Oceania {{Pitcairn-geo-stub