Piracy in the Pacific Ocean

island in the Pacific Ocean administered by Costa Rica

Welsh pirate (1635-1688)

British pirate and explorer (1651-1715)

1789 mutiny aboard the British Royal Navy ship HMS Bounty

British sailor

Wokou (; ; Hepburn: ; ; literal Chinese translation: "dwarf bandits"), which translates to "Japanese pirates", were pirates who raided the coastlines of China and Korea from the 13th century to the 17th century. The wokou were made of various ethnicities of East Asian ancestry, which varied over time and raided the mainland from islands in the Sea of Japan and East China Sea.

maritime piracy from the 1650s to the 1730s

island in Chile

British sea captain and governor of the Bahamas (1679–1732)

piracy in the China Sea

thumb|300px|In 1869, seized the blackbirding schooner and freed its passengers, who were bound for Queensland, Australia.

French navy officer

1019 invasion of northern Kyūshū by Jurchen pirates

English buccaneer

English buccaneer

circumnavigation by George Anson and eight other ships

cultural heritage site in Peru

1670–1671 attack on Panama

American pirate

British pirate

by Chinese-led international merchant-pirates (including the Japanese) on Ming dynasty China

former Spanish mission in California

19th-century American sailor and blackbirder

English buccaneer and writer

first English circumnavigation of the world