[3][4] There were a couple of wrecks on the island in the 19th century: The brig Rapid, under Captain Arthur Devlin, ran aground on the reef at 0200 h on 14 January 1841, going at a speed of 7 knots with all its sails up: The crew member on lookout duty may not have been paying attention.

[6] There have been three recent shipwrecks on the reef (1979, 1981 and 2008), the latest one is the Chinese fishing vessel San Sheng No.

The stranded wreck of a coastal trading vessel lies 240 metres south of the centre of the cay.

It offers the rare opportunity to experience diving and snorkeling in a virtually untouched underwater environment.

The Australian plate is subducting under the New Hebrides plate to produce an active seismic zone the Hunter fracture zone and in concert with propagating back-arc extension, a volcanic Hunter Ridge that extends from southern Vanuatu to the area of Ceva-I-Ra.

[11] The convergence becomes oblique by Ceva-I-Ra as the Hunter fracture zone extends towards the Kadavu Islands of Fiji.