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. Current Pitcairn Islanders are largely lineal descendants of the mutineers, as exhibited by some of their surnames.