Duff Islands

[2] The Duff Islands were settled by the Lapita people about 900 BC.

Contact with outsiders comes by battery-powered marine radio and the occasional cargo ship.

The first recorded sighting by Europeans of the Duff Islands was by the Spanish expedition of Pedro Fernández de Quirós where it anchored on 8 April 1606.

They were charted by Quirós as Nuestra Señora del Socorro (Our Lady of Succour in Spanish).

Studies of David Lewis and Marianne (Mimi) George identified that traditional Polynesian navigational techniques were still preserved in these islands.