[3] Other whaling ships visited for water and wood in the decades that followed and islanders sometimes served as crewmen on those vessels.

In 1841, the surviving crew of the Whaler Mary, having been wrecked on the nearby Lachlan Islands, sailed to Woodlark, and there all but one were murdered.

Giovanni Battista (John) Mazzucconi was killed there in 1855 by an islander called Avicoar who opposed the missionaries and their religion.

Operation Chronicle was the name given to the landing of the United States' 112th Cavalry Regiment on Woodlark Island and Kiriwina on June 30, 1943, during World War II.

Modern gold exploration was initiated on Woodlark Island in 1962 with the Bureau of Mineral Resources undertaking surface geochemistry, limited geophysics, and diamond drilling during 1962 and 1963 at Kulumadau.

However, separate from the villages are the two post-colonial creations of Guasopa and Kulumadau (described in the census book as 'large rural non-villages'), which both have relatively large populations, 147 and 242 respectively.

That is, from an estimated 2,200 people on Woodlark Island during first European contact, the population had dropped to between 700 and 900 by about 1915, though it has rebounded over the years.

[13] A late surviving gryposuchine, this 2–3-meter (6 ft 7 in – 9 ft 10 in) long piscivore was the last known truly marine crocodilian (modern saltwater crocodiles that still occur in the Solomon only occasionally venture into the sea, preferring freshwater environments), found in association with sirenian and sea turtle remains.