[3] The island is administered under Nissan Rural LLG in the Autonomous Region of Bougainville.
[3] Commonly traded items would have included pigs, pottery, and shell money.
[3] British and American whaling vessels visited the island in the nineteenth century for food, water and wood.
[7] Richard Nixon was a supply officer on the base, and is remembered as being popular with the indigenous inhabitants.
After that time the front line had moved closer to Japan and the island was no longer needed in the war effort.