Bounty had been acquired to transport breadfruit plants from Tahiti (then rendered "Otaheite"), a Polynesian island in the south Pacific, to the British colonies in the West Indies.
O Bounty foi adquirido para transportar árbores do pan de Tahití (entón chamada «Otaheite»), unha illa polinesia no sur do océano Pacífico, ata as colonias británicas nas Indias Occidentais.