Punta Mbonda

Punta Mbonda, also called Cape Bata, is a low wooded point on the mainland coast of the Gulf of Guinea. A reef extends seaward from the headland, beyond which the water deepens. The coast lies opposite the island of Fernando Pó, whose Bubi inhabitants kept their autonomy despite occasional Portuguese contact. In the eighteenth century Portugal transferred its claims to the island and trading rights along the neighbouring mainland coast to Spain.