We are familiar with the Bounty Islands thanks to a promotional video offering to enjoy a chocolate bar with delicate coconut filling. At the thought of this advertisement, a picture of a deserted island with clear blue water, white sand, green palm trees immediately looms before us. But only few people know that in fact, it was not the Bounty Islands located in the southeast of New Zealand, but the Thai island of Samui that was used for the shooting of the ads.
Why did the creators of the chocolate bar choose such a name for him and confused the tracks by picking up an amazing picture with tropical landscapes and giving it a completely different name? This is the same as calling Antarctica Africa, because the true Bounty Islands have nothing to do with azure clear waters, warm sands, palm trees with coconuts. The maker of the bar probably just picked up the most euphonious name and fantasized about it
an uninhabited island where you can hide from all the problems and worries.
Of 13 small rocky patches of land is the island of Bounty. Where this miracle is located, many will be interested in knowing, but few people suggest that you need to search for it 650 km in the southeast of New Zealand. There are no palm trees here, and the vegetation is very scarce, because the climate is quite severe. The air temperature usually does not fall below 0 ° C, but does not rise above 12 ° C. Of all the mammals, seals can be found here, and inaccessible cliffs were chosen by flocks of penguins and albatrosses.
It is difficult to call the island of Bounty a paradise on earth. Prices for tours to this godforsaken place are unlikely to interest tourists, since the impregnable coastal cliffs do not contribute to the landing of passengers of ships passing by. However, no one except members of research expeditions is allowed here, since the Bounty is under the protection of UNESCO. In the XIX - XX centuries, hunters often visited the islands, attracted by a large number of seals, as a result of which almost the entire population of mammals was exterminated. Now these animals live quietly here and breed, their life is not in danger.
Many are interested in why the Bounty Islands got such a name, which contributed to this. It turns out that they were so named after the English ship "Bounty", which passed in 1788 by a piece of land that had not yet been discovered at that time. Perhaps this name would have remained little known to anyone, if not for the incident that occurred on the ship in 1789. Then a revolt broke out on the ship, the rebels landed the captain and his adherents in a boat and allowed them to sail freely on the ocean. Fortunately, no one was hurt, and after 7 weeks of wandering, the unfortunate were saved.
The Bounty Islands today remain uninhabited, except for the members of expeditions who from time to time come to these harsh places to conduct research, as well as penguin colonies, flocks of albatross and floppy seals. This is a real uninhabited patch of land, but it has nothing to do with warm sunny days, clear water, white sand, enchanting greenery.