There are many kinships ties between the villages of Hog Harbour, Port Olry, Sara, Kole 1 and 2, and Lathë.

In 1897, Dr Bowie, who was then a Scottish missionary had first established the Presbyterian Church mission in Hog Harbour.

Another version is that it derives from the preponderance of sea oak trees found along the coastline, oak giving hoak in the dominant local pronunciation of Bislama; hoak then being reinterpreted as hog as a back-formation by anglophones because voiced final stops such as /g/ are often devoiced in Bislama.

[2] It should be noted, however, that this is not necessarily an indication of the prevalence of pigs (intersex or otherwise) in Hog Harbour itself, as Baker's account also makes it clear that the occasion on which he saw this many pigs was a trading event, in which "many young intersexes for a few old ones brought from another island was taking place".

[2] Baker's chief claim about the abundance of intersex pigs is that they are mainly associated with the northern islands of Vanuatu.

(Beasant, who was in Port Vila during the rebellion, says "two people" but local oral history suggests this confuses two separate altercations involving Hog Harbour residents.)

Hog Harbour to date has changed dramatically, with the village growing rapidly in population size and development is taking lead as well .

The most extensive written records on Hog Harbour from the first half of the 20th century are letters from the missionary Mrs Kay Anderson (née Milne, born on Nguna) to the linguist Arthur Capell.