Is it legal to collect at Pitcairn Island: Bounty Bay, HMS Bounty 1790 wreck landing?

Gray area. Pitcairn: British Overseas Territory, the island council controls the wreck site and islanders have sold Bounty relics for generations; no opened source states a formal rule, treat the wreck as protected and ask the council

What can you find at Pitcairn Island: Bounty Bay, HMS Bounty 1790 wreck landing?

copper and iron nails, ballast pigs, glass trade beads, sheathing, modern landing debris

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Pitcairn Islands

Pitcairn Island

Bounty Bay, HMS Bounty 1790 wreck landing

Tidal foreshore Documented siteGray area

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What you could find

Reported finds from this shoreline.

Nails and fittings

Wreck timber

Trade beads

Also reported: sheathing, modern landing debris.

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: North Lincolnshire Museum, Martin Foreman, (CC BY 2.0), NPS photo (Public domain), Unknown (CC BY 4.0).

Why this spot

Mutineers burned and sank the Bounty in the bay in January 1790; Luis Marden located the remains in 1957 and islanders have raised nails, ballast and fittings since.

Atlas Obscura entry: wreck in shallow water off Adamstown found by Marden in 1957, some artefacts removed and displayed in the community hall, divers face dangerous swells; Bonhams has sold beads and nails salvaged from the wreckView source →

Before you go

Hazards noted for this site.

Violent surge at the landingRemote with no medical cover, extremely limited access

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