Bucaneer Bay

Buccaneer Cove lies on the coast of Santiago Island in the Galápagos, beneath dark volcanic cliffs. In the late seventeenth century English buccaneers used this island and neighboring James Bay as anchorages. Santiago offered visiting ships wood, fresh water and giant tortoises, which could be kept alive aboard as provisions. The sheltered cove became part of a network of Pacific refuges for raiders and, later, whalers sailing far from established ports.