Given the prevalent North Easterly winds and the sandbar and sandy beach mentioned in the Bible, it has been argued that it is more likely the actual shipwreck took place in the area known as il-Munxar which has a submerged reef and a sandy beach near St. Thomas' Bay in the southeast part of the island.

He navigated his vessel through the narrow channel between St Paul's Island and Malta, but when the pirates followed him they ran aground and were captured.

The tower was part of a contract, for the exchange of the island with the Casa della Giornata (now the site of the Royal Opera House) in Valletta which belonged to Michel de Torellas, the Prior of Catalonia.

[9] Until the 1930s, a farmer called Vincenzo Borg, nicknamed Ta' Bajdafin, lived on the island[10] in the tower built by Grandmaster Lascaris.

After 10 years, the statue was moved from St. Paul's Bay to Qawra point because of deteriorating visibility in the water and a decline in divers visiting the site.

[14] Saint Paul's Island's landscape is a maritime garigue dominated by golden samphire, Maltese fleabane and other species.

[16] A subspecies of the Maltese wall lizard known as Podarcis filfolensis kieselbachi also lived there but the population apparently became extinct in 2005.

(2008) Conservation Status of St Paul's Island Wall Lizard (Podarcis filfolensis kieselbachi).